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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Illusion of control






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






3. 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






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






5. Just world bias






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Person who speaks out against majority






13. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






28. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored






29. Doll preference studies






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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 commander - legitimate-seeming






35. 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






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






37. Groupthink






38. Self-perception theory






39. Likely to occur in a group with unquestioned beliefs - pressure to conform - invulnerability - censors - cohesiveness - isolation - strong leader; to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critical testing - analyzing - or evaluating






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






41. 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)






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Groups take greater risks than individuals






46. 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






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






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






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






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