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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Inoculation theory






2. 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






3. Hawthorne effect






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






6. 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






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






8. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






9. Attribution theory - balance theory






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. Cognitive dissonance theory






15. 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)






16. Just world bias






17. 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






18. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. Theory of reasoned action






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less






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






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






35. 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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36. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups

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44. Doll preference studies






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






46. Illusion of control






47. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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






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







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