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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance






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






3. 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






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






5. 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)






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






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






8. 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






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






10. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






11. Inoculation theory






12. Group polarization






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






14. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






16. 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






17. 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






18. Self-perception theory






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






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






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






22. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






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






29. 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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30. Theory of reasoned action






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. Elaboration likelihood model






35. 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






36. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






37. 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






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






39. 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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40. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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