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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Inoculation theory






2. 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






3. 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






4. Hawthorne effect






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






16. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






18. 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






19. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






20. Elaboration likelihood model






21. 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






22. Assuming most other people think as you do






23. 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)






24. 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






25. Self-perception theory






26. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






28. 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






29. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






31. Attribution theory - balance theory






32. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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 -






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






48. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors






49. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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







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