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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






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






5. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis






6. 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






7. Cognitive dissonance theory






8. Group polarization






9. Theory of reasoned action






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






18. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






26. 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






27. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






28. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






30. 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






31. Groups take greater risks than individuals






32. 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






33. 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)






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. Just world bias






42. 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)






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






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