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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. 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)






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






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






5. 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






6. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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)






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






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






13. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






19. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Self-perception theory






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






29. Just world bias






30. 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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31. 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






32. 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






33. Inoculation theory






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






39. 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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40. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






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






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






44. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors






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






46. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






47. 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






48. 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






49. Illusion of control






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