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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Self-perception theory






4. 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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5. Theory of reasoned action






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






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






8. Just world bias






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






10. 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






11. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday






12. Groupthink






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






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






15. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






17. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer






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






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






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






21. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






23. Person who speaks out against majority






24. 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






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






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






27. 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 -






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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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34. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






35. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






36. Inoculation theory






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier






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






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






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






44. Elaboration likelihood model






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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