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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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 -






2. Hawthorne effect






3. 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






4. Illusion of control






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






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






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






8. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






9. Person who speaks out against majority






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






12. Inoculation theory






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






14. Cognitive dissonance theory






15. 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






16. 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






17. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






22. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with






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






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






25. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






26. 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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. Groupthink






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






44. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






46. 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)






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






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






49. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






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