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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Theory of reasoned action






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






14. Self-perception theory






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






16. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






19. 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






20. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






21. 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






22. 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






23. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities






24. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






25. 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






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






27. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety






28. 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






29. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






30. 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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31. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. Person who speaks out against majority






41. Attribution theory - balance theory






42. 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






43. 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






44. Hawthorne effect






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






46. 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)






47. Inoculation theory






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






49. Group polarization






50. Elaboration likelihood model