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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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)






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. Hawthorne effect






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






10. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






11. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do






12. 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)






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. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






15. Theory of reasoned action






16. Self-perception theory






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






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






19. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace






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






22. 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






23. 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






24. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






35. 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






36. Groups take greater risks than individuals






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






48. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer






49. Just world bias






50. Frustration-aggression hypothesis