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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift






2. Hawthorne effect






3. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do






4. 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)






5. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






6. Person who speaks out against majority






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities






14. 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)






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Groupthink






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups

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






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






33. Self-perception theory






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






35. 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






36. 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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37. 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






38. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






39. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






40. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






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






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






45. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -






46. Illusion of control






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. Just world bias







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