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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Deutsch; 2 companies can choose to cooperate and agree on high fixed prices - or compete with lower prices - but lack of complete trust will choose to compete; prisoner'S dilemma in economic terms






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






3. Group polarization






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






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






6. 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 -






7. Groupthink






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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






14. Assuming most other people think as you do






15. Theory of reasoned action






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






26. Inoculation theory






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






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






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






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






32. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






33. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






39. Self-perception theory






40. 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


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






42. 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


43. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






44. 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


45. Illusion of control






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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