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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Self-perception theory






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. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






9. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






10. 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






11. 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






12. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting






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






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






15. 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






16. Cognitive dissonance theory






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. 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






19. 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






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. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






23. Illusion of control






24. 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 -






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






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






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






28. 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

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29. 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






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






32. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






33. 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






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






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






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






37. Doll preference studies






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






39. Groupthink






40. 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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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