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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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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. Just world bias






3. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






4. Elaboration likelihood model






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






6. Inoculation theory






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






8. 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






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. 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)






11. 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






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






13. Doll preference studies






14. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






15. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






17. 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






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






19. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






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






23. 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 -






24. 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


25. 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






26. 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






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






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






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






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


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






32. 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






33. 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)






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






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






36. 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






37. Assuming most other people think as you do






38. Illusion of control






39. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






41. Self-perception theory






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






43. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






45. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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