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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Doll preference studies






2. 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






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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. Elaboration likelihood model






9. 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






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






11. Hawthorne effect






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






16. Just world bias






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






18. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. Assuming most other people think as you do






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. Self-perception theory






28. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`






29. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present






30. 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






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






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. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities






40. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






41. Dislike(-) - like (+) - balance if 1 or 3 + - imbalance if 0 or 2 + - too simplistic - Balance exists when all 3 fit together harmoniously - when there sin'T balance - there will be stress - and a tendency to remove stress by achieving balance






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






43. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)






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






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






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






47. Illusion of control






48. 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






49. 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






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







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