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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






4. Inoculation theory






5. 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






6. Just world bias






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






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






9. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment






10. 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






11. 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






12. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






13. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






14. 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






15. Person who speaks out against majority






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






17. 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






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






19. Self-perception theory






20. 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)






21. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






23. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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)






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






29. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






30. Doll preference studies






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






33. 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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34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. Hawthorne effect






39. 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






40. Group polarization






41. Had subjects listen to 'opinion' of others of which lines were equal - subjects conformed to clearly incorrect opinion of others 33% of the time; unanimity seemed to be influential






42. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`






43. Assuming most other people think as you do






44. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less






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






49. 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






50. Elaboration likelihood model