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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






4. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






6. 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






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






8. Inoculation theory






9. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






10. 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






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






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






13. Just world bias






14. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






15. Theory of reasoned action






16. Self-perception theory






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






19. 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






20. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






21. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






22. 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






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






24. Cognitive dissonance theory






25. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition






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






27. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






29. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






30. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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)






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. 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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






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






43. Hawthorne effect






44. Illusion of control






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. 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 -






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