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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Attribution theory - balance theory






2. 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






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






4. Person who speaks out against majority






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






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






7. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






8. Studied subjects who were first made to believe a state and then later told it was false. subjects continued to believe the state if they had processed it and devised their own logical explanation for it






9. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






10. Illusion of control






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






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






13. 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






14. 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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15. 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






16. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact






17. 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)






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






19. 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






20. Deutsch; 2 companies can choose to cooperate and agree on high fixed prices - or compete with lower prices - but lack of complete trust will choose to compete; prisoner'S dilemma in economic terms






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






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






23. 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






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






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






27. Elaboration likelihood model






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






29. Hawthorne effect






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






40. 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






41. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






42. Doll preference studies






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






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






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






46. 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






47. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






49. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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