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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






4. Inoculation theory






5. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






12. Elaboration likelihood model






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






14. Attribution theory - balance theory






15. 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






16. Person who speaks out against majority






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






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






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






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






23. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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)






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






33. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






34. 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)






35. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. Illusion of control






44. 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)






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






46. 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






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






48. 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






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






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