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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Assuming most other people think as you do






4. 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






5. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






7. Elaboration likelihood model






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






14. 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)






15. 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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16. Just world bias






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






18. 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






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. 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






21. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






23. Hawthorne effect






24. 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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25. 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






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






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






28. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






29. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Illusion of control






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Theory of reasoned action