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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






3. Person who speaks out against majority






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. Assuming most other people think as you do






9. 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






10. Group polarization






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






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






13. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. Groupthink






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. Hawthorne effect






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






27. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






37. 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






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






39. Attribution theory - balance theory






40. 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






41. Theory of reasoned action






42. Self-perception theory






43. 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






44. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment






45. Cognitive dissonance theory






46. Doll preference studies






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






48. 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






49. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






50. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform