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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. Person who speaks out against majority






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






4. 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






5. Doll preference studies






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






15. Theory of reasoned action






16. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






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






18. Elaboration likelihood model






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






20. Assuming most other people think as you do






21. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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)






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






28. 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






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






30. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






31. 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






32. Inoculation theory






33. Studied subjects who were first made to believe a state and then later told it was false. subjects continued to believe the state if they had processed it and devised their own logical explanation for it






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






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






36. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier






37. 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






38. 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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39. 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






40. Just world bias






41. Illusion of control






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






43. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. Attribution theory - balance theory






50. Cognitive dissonance theory