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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. 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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9. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do






10. 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






11. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






13. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






22. Theory of reasoned action






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






29. 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






30. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






33. 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






34. 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)






35. Hawthorne effect






36. Inoculation theory






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






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






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






40. Doll preference studies






41. 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






42. Illusion of control






43. The total influences upon individual behavior






44. 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






45. Just world bias






46. Assuming most other people think as you do






47. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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