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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain






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






5. 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






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






7. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






9. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






10. Attribution theory - balance theory






11. 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)






12. Assuming most other people think as you do






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Groupthink






18. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






20. Experiment - people'S descriptions of the autokinetic effect were influenced by others' descriptions; also win/lose game-type competition can trigger conflict in groups - Robbers' cave experiment






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. Person who speaks out against majority






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






28. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






29. Theory of reasoned action






30. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer






31. 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






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






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






34. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. When people think there is a higher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind more easily; e.g. read a list - half celebrity names - half random - may think more celebrities than random be






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






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






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






44. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






45. Self-perception theory






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






47. 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






48. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger






49. 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






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







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