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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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)






2. Hawthorne effect






3. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






4. Elaboration likelihood model






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






6. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






7. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






8. 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






9. Likely to occur in a group with unquestioned beliefs - pressure to conform - invulnerability - censors - cohesiveness - isolation - strong leader; to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critical testing - analyzing - or evaluating






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






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






14. Continued Milgram'S study - --> deindividuated individuals more willing to administer higher levels of shock; --> prison simulation experiments found normal subjects could easily be transformed into sadistic prison guards; --> also found antisocial b






15. Person who speaks out against majority






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






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






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






19. 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






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






21. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






22. 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






23. Illusion of control






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






26. 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






27. Assuming most other people think as you do






28. Inoculation theory






29. Just world bias






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






31. 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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32. 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






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. 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






35. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






37. 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






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






39. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






40. Groupthink






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






42. Particularly positive self-presentation is influencial on behaviour - we act in ways that align with our attitudes or in ways that will be accepted by others; self-monitoring; impression management






43. 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






44. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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







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