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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






4. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






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






12. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






13. 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)






14. 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






15. 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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16. 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






17. 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






18. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Just world bias






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






26. Person who speaks out against majority






27. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






38. 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






39. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






41. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






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






45. 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






46. Theory of reasoned action






47. 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)






48. Illusion of control






49. 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






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