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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






3. 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)






4. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






10. Group polarization






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






13. Just world bias






14. The total influences upon individual behavior






15. The study of how people relate to and influence each other






16. 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






17. 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






18. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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






21. 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 -






22. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






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






32. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






34. Hawthorne effect






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






41. Illusion of control






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. Self-perception theory






47. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






48. 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






49. Cognitive dissonance theory






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