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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






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






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






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






8. Inoculation theory






9. 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






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






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






12. Just world bias






13. 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






14. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






16. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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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25. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






31. Theory of reasoned action






32. 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






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






34. 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 -






35. 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)






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






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






38. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present






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






40. Elaboration likelihood model






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. 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)






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






48. 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






49. Self-perception theory






50. 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