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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed






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






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






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






7. 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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






10. 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






11. Particularly positive self-presentation is influencial on behaviour - we act in ways that align with our attitudes or in ways that will be accepted by others; self-monitoring; impression management






12. Groups take greater risks than individuals






13. Doll preference studies






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






15. 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






16. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






17. Elaboration likelihood model






18. 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


19. 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)






20. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment






21. 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






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






23. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do






24. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






25. 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)






26. 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






27. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer






28. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis






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






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






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






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






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






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. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present






36. Festinger; it is uncomfortable for people to have beliefs that do not match actions; people are motivated to back actions up by changing beliefs; the less act is justified by circumstance - the more we feel need to justify it by aligning attitude wit






37. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






38. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






39. 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






40. 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


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






42. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. Had subjects listen to 'opinion' of others of which lines were equal - subjects conformed to clearly incorrect opinion of others 33% of the time; unanimity seemed to be influential






47. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance






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






49. Group polarization






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