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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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)






6. Self-perception theory






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






8. 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






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






18. Inoculation theory






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. Just world bias






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






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






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






26. Hawthorne effect






27. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






28. Illusion of control






29. 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






30. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health






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






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






33. 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






34. Doll preference studies






35. Expense incurred and cannot be recovered; because money already spent is irrelevant to the future - best to ignore these when making decisions but we often do not






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






37. 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






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






39. Groupthink






40. 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






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






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






43. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health






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






45. 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






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






47. Group polarization






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






49. Attribution theory - balance theory






50. 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







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