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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. 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






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






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






6. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action






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






8. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






9. Elaboration likelihood model






10. Person who speaks out against majority






11. Inoculation theory






12. Occurs when individual identity or accountability is de-emphasized - may be the result of mingling in a crowd - wearing uniforms - or otherwise adopting a larger group identity






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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Attribution theory - balance theory






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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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25. Just world bias






26. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -






27. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






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






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






31. Illusion of control






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






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






34. 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






35. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






36. Self-perception theory






37. 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






38. Hawthorne effect






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






40. 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






41. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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. Groupthink






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






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






46. 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)






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






48. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks






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






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






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