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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Just world bias






2. 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)






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






10. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






11. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






13. Self-perception theory






14. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






15. 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






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






17. 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

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18. Elaboration likelihood model






19. 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






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






21. Cognitive dissonance theory






22. Theory of reasoned action






23. Hawthorne effect






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






31. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`






32. 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)






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






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






35. 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






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. 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






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






39. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






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






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






42. Person who speaks out against majority






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. Groups take greater risks than individuals






49. 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






50. 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