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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






3. 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






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






5. Hawthorne effect






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. Inoculation theory






12. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






15. Theory of reasoned action






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






17. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






18. 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)






19. Groupthink






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






22. Illusion of control






23. 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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. Group polarization






31. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






32. 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






33. 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 -






34. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






37. Doll preference studies






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






45. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






47. 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






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






49. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






50. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love