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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. Assuming most other people think as you do






10. Inoculation theory






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






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






13. Elaboration likelihood model






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. 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)






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






22. Doll preference studies






23. Group polarization






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






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






26. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






32. Cognitive dissonance theory






33. Just world bias






34. Person who speaks out against majority






35. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






37. Self-perception theory






38. The study of how people relate to and influence each other






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






40. 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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41. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






43. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






44. 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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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







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