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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. The total influences upon individual behavior






3. 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






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






5. Doll preference studies






6. 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






7. Self-perception theory






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






9. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Just world bias






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






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






21. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






22. Hawthorne effect






23. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






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






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






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






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






28. The tendency that the larger the group - the less likely individuals in the group will act or take responsibility - result of deindividuation (Kitty Genovese care)






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. Elaboration likelihood model






38. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






40. Group polarization






41. 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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42. Groups take greater risks than individuals






43. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






44. It is majority opinion - majority has unanimous position - majority has high status majority or individual is concerned for her own status - situation in public - not previously committed to a position - low self-esteem - scores high on authoritarian






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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