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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. Just world bias






8. Illusion of control






9. 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






10. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






11. The total influences upon individual behavior






12. 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)






13. Stimulus-overload theory; also 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






14. Continued Milgram'S study - --> deindividuated individuals more willing to administer higher levels of shock; --> prison simulation experiments found normal subjects could easily be transformed into sadistic prison guards; --> also found antisocial b






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






16. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






17. Groupthink






18. Attribution theory - balance theory






19. Person who speaks out against majority






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






21. Hawthorne effect






22. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






25. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






30. 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 -






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






32. 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






33. Persuasive communication from a source of low credibility may become more acceptable later; perhaps memory+discounting cue is severed over time - later recalling a source is less available - or differential decay: impact of cue decays faster than mes






34. 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






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






36. Groups take greater risks than individuals






37. 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






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






39. 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)






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






47. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with






48. 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






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






50. Elaboration likelihood model






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