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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






3. The total influences upon individual behavior






4. Illusion of control






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. Groups take greater risks than individuals






11. Just world bias






12. Hawthorne effect






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






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






15. Elaboration likelihood model






16. 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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. 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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






23. 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






24. 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






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






26. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






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






29. 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






30. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability






31. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average






32. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






33. 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






34. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice






35. 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






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






37. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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)






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






45. 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






46. Doll preference studies






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






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






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






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