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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






6. 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






7. 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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8. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along






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






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






11. 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






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






13. Person who speaks out against majority






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






28. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






30. 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)






31. 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)






32. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact






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






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






35. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






37. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






38. 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






39. Particularly positive self-presentation is influencial on behaviour - we act in ways that align with our attitudes or in ways that will be accepted by others; self-monitoring; impression management






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






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






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






43. 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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44. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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