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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






6. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Groupthink






17. 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






18. 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)






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






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






21. 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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






23. 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






24. Groups take greater risks than individuals






25. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. The total influences upon individual behavior






34. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






35. Cognitive dissonance theory






36. 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)






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






38. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






39. 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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40. 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






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. 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






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






44. 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)






45. Person who speaks out against majority






46. Just world bias






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






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






49. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger






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