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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






3. 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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4. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






6. Groupthink






7. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. Groups take greater risks than individuals






13. 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






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






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






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. 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






19. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






20. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






28. Doll preference studies






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






30. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






32. Group polarization






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






48. 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)






49. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability






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