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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. The total influences upon individual behavior






9. 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






10. Groupthink






11. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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






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






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






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






17. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






19. Theory of reasoned action






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. 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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27. 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






28. Attribution theory - balance theory






29. 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






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






31. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






44. Group polarization






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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






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