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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






2. Groups take greater risks than individuals






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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)






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






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






8. 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)






9. Group polarization






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






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






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






13. 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)






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






15. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






19. 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 -






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






22. 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






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






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






25. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






27. 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






28. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






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






31. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






38. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






40. Hawthorne effect






41. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






42. 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


43. The total influences upon individual behavior






44. 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






45. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






47. Doll preference studies






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






49. Person who speaks out against majority






50. 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