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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






3. 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






4. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






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






7. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






9. 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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. Self-perception theory






21. Theory of reasoned action






22. 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






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






24. 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






25. 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

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26. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety






27. Just world bias






28. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






29. 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






30. 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






31. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact






37. 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






38. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






46. M.J. Lerner - The belief that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people - it is uncomfortable for people to accept that bad things happen to good people - so they blame the victim






47. 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






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






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






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