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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






6. Cognitive dissonance theory






7. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






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






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. 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






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






19. Illusion of control






20. 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)






21. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






22. 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






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






24. Hawthorne effect






25. 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






26. 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)






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






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






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






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






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






32. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






33. Inoculation theory






34. 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






35. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others






36. 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






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






38. 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






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. 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






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






42. Groupthink






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






44. 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






45. 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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46. 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






47. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






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






49. 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






50. 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