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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






4. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






6. Person who speaks out against majority






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






8. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






10. 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






11. Hawthorne effect






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






14. 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)






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. Cognitive dissonance theory






26. 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






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






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






30. 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






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






32. Assuming most other people think as you do






33. Self-perception theory






34. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






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






38. Elaboration likelihood model






39. 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






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






41. 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 -






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. Attribution theory - balance theory






44. Just world bias






45. 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






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






47. Group polarization






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






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






50. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately