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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities






2. Continued Milgram'S study - --> deindividuated individuals more willing to administer higher levels of shock; --> prison simulation experiments found normal subjects could easily be transformed into sadistic prison guards; --> also found antisocial b






3. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs






4. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact






5. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger






6. The study of how people relate to and influence each other






7. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift






8. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday






9. Ellen langer - Belief that you can control things that you actually have no influence on - The driving force behind manipulating the lottery - gambling and superstition






10. Intense longing for the union with another and a state of profound physiological arousal - biophysiological - can be positive(when love is reciprocal) and negative (when love is unrequited)






11. Group polarization






12. Dislike(-) - like (+) - balance if 1 or 3 + - imbalance if 0 or 2 + - too simplistic - Balance exists when all 3 fit together harmoniously - when there sin'T balance - there will be stress - and a tendency to remove stress by achieving balance






13. Groups take greater risks than individuals






14. Expense incurred and cannot be recovered; because money already spent is irrelevant to the future - best to ignore these when making decisions but we often do not






15. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract






16. Deutsch; if 2 criminals detained separately - best strategy is for neither to talk - but it is a gamble that requires trust - so most spill the beans; in economic terms is the trucking company game

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17. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)






18. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting






19. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace






20. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier






21. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object






22. Stimulus-overload theory; also experiment where participants ordered to give 'painful electric shocks' to a 'learner' when incorrect - explored how people respond to orders; conditions that facilitated conformity: remoteness of victim - proximity of






23. Groupthink






24. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health






25. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour






26. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action






27. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






28. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)






29. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them






30. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






31. Achieved through: self-perception - high-self-monitoring - internality - self-efficacy; experiments facilitate this by having subjects perform tasks while looking in a mirror; deindividuation works against it






32. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)






33. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along






34. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks






35. Theory of reasoned action






36. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others






37. Person who speaks out against majority






38. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






39. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment






40. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors






41. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health






42. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree






43. Milgram; explains why urbanities are less prosocial than country people; they do not need any more interaction; e.g. emergency situations familiar to city people - novelty for town people will attract attention and help






44. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






45. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable






46. Hawthorne effect






47. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






48. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour






49. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`






50. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -