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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






9. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






10. Person who speaks out against majority






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






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






13. Assuming most other people think as you do






14. 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






15. 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 -






16. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






17. 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






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






19. 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)






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






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






22. 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






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






24. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






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






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






29. Deutsch; if 2 criminals detained separately - best strategy is for neither to talk - but it is a gamble that requires trust - so most spill the beans; in economic terms is the trucking company game

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30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






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






36. Groups take greater risks than individuals






37. Group polarization






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






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






41. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups

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42. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






43. Illusion of control






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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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