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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Cognitive dissonance theory






4. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice






5. Evaluating one'S own actions - abilities - opinions - and ideas and comparing to others; - since others are generally familiar people (own social group) - used for argument against mainstreaming; --> when children with difficulties in classes with no






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






7. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment






8. When people think there is a higher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind more easily; e.g. read a list - half celebrity names - half random - may think more celebrities than random be






9. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






11. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer






12. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better






13. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






15. 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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16. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs






17. It is majority opinion - majority has unanimous position - majority has high status majority or individual is concerned for her own status - situation in public - not previously committed to a position - low self-esteem - scores high on authoritarian






18. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with






19. 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






20. Argued that human have 6 basic emotions: sadness - happiness - fear - anger - surprise - disgust - drew conclusion from cross-cultural studies - individuals could recognize facial expressions corresponding to those six; FACS coding






21. Occurs when individual identity or accountability is de-emphasized - may be the result of mingling in a crowd - wearing uniforms - or otherwise adopting a larger group identity






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






23. Likely to occur in a group with unquestioned beliefs - pressure to conform - invulnerability - censors - cohesiveness - isolation - strong leader; to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critical testing - analyzing - or evaluating






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






25. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






26. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it






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






28. Persuasive communication from a source of low credibility may become more acceptable later; perhaps memory+discounting cue is severed over time - later recalling a source is less available - or differential decay: impact of cue decays faster than mes






29. Code facial expressions for emotion; can determine whether a smile is genuine (happiness engages the upper cheek) or fake (eyes and whole face are less involved)






30. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored






31. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety






32. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






33. People act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss; people favour situations that start out negative and end positive - even compared to completely positive situations






34. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






35. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






36. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability






37. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






38. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






39. 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






40. Attribution theory - balance theory






41. 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)






42. 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 commander - legitimate-seeming






43. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






44. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later






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






46. Studied racial bias and belief similarity - people prefer to be with like-minded people more than like-skinned; racial bias decreases as attitude similarity between people increases






47. Theory of reasoned action






48. M.J. Lerner - The belief that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people - it is uncomfortable for people to accept that bad things happen to good people - so they blame the victim






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






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