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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)






4. Group polarization






5. Stimulus-overload theory; also 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






6. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. Just world bias






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






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. Inoculation theory






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






20. 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






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






22. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






25. Illusion of control






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






27. 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)






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. Self-perception theory






41. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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






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






45. 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)






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






47. Had subjects listen to 'opinion' of others of which lines were equal - subjects conformed to clearly incorrect opinion of others 33% of the time; unanimity seemed to be influential






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






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






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