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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. Illusion of control






3. 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)






4. 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






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






6. 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






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






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. 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)






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






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






12. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






23. 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






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. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. Groupthink






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






34. 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






35. Doll preference studies






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






37. The total influences upon individual behavior






38. Groups take greater risks than individuals






39. Elaboration likelihood model






40. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






42. Inoculation 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. 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






45. 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






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. Just world bias






48. 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






49. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






50. 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