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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






3. 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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4. 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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. One of the first to apply psychology to business - specifically in advertising; also involved in helping military implement psychological testing to aid with personnel selection






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






10. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






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






13. Person who speaks out against majority






14. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






16. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






17. 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






18. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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)






28. Expert and/or trustworthy - similar to listener - acceptable to listener - overheard rather than obviously influencing - anecdotal - emotional - or shocking - part of a debate rather than one-sided argument

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29. Theory of reasoned action






30. The tendency that the larger the group - the less likely individuals in the group will act or take responsibility - result of deindividuation (Kitty Genovese care)






31. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various






32. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






33. 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






34. 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






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






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






37. Elaboration likelihood model






38. 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






39. 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






40. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition






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






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






43. Assuming most other people think as you do






44. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain






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






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






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






48. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






49. Just world bias






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