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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






7. 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






8. 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


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






10. Theory of reasoned action






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






12. Attribution theory - balance theory






13. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace






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






15. 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






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






17. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them






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






19. 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






20. 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)






21. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






28. 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






29. Self-perception theory






30. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






31. Inoculation theory






32. 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


33. 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






34. 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)






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. Illusion of control






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






40. Elaboration likelihood model






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






42. 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 -






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






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. Just world bias