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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






2. 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






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






4. 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)






5. Group polarization






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






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






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






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






10. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






27. Person who speaks out against majority






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






29. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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)






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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. 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


47. Expert and/or trustworthy - similar to listener - acceptable to listener - overheard rather than obviously influencing - anecdotal - emotional - or shocking - part of a debate rather than one-sided argument


48. 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)






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






50. 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