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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Experiment - people'S descriptions of the autokinetic effect were influenced by others' descriptions; also win/lose game-type competition can trigger conflict in groups - Robbers' cave experiment






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






9. 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






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






11. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






12. Illusion of control






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






14. 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






15. Just world bias






16. Group polarization






17. 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)






18. Code facial expressions for emotion; can determine whether a smile is genuine (happiness engages the upper cheek) or fake (eyes and whole face are less involved)






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. Doll preference studies






27. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






29. 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






30. Groupthink






31. 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






32. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






34. Studied racial bias and belief similarity - people prefer to be with like-minded people more than like-skinned; racial bias decreases as attitude similarity between people increases






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






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






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






38. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them






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






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






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






43. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






44. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






45. Elaboration likelihood model






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






47. The total influences upon individual behavior






48. 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






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






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