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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






6. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them






7. Groupthink






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






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






10. 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






11. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






12. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






13. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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






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






24. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less






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






26. 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






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






28. Self-perception theory






29. Inoculation theory






30. 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






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






32. Hawthorne effect






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. 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






35. Assuming most other people think as you do






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. 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






38. 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






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






40. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






43. 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 -






44. Doll preference studies






45. Theory of reasoned action






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






47. 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






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






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






50. 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






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