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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Illusion of control






2. 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






3. Groups take greater risks than individuals






4. 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)






5. 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






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






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






8. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






11. 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






12. Elaboration likelihood model






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






14. 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






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






16. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






19. 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






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






21. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






22. Self-perception theory






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






24. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






25. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






27. Assuming most other people think as you do






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






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






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






38. Group polarization






39. 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






40. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






42. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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