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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. 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






3. Groupthink






4. 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






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






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






7. Self-perception theory






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






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






10. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






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






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






15. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






17. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






20. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object






21. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






22. Theory of reasoned action






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






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






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






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






27. 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)






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






33. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






34. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Group polarization






49. Assuming most other people think as you do






50. 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