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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance






18. Group polarization






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






20. Hawthorne effect






21. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






22. 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






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






24. Groupthink






25. 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






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






27. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






36. 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






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






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






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






41. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






43. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






44. 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






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






46. 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)






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






48. 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






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






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