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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. The study of how people relate to and influence each other






2. 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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






4. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






14. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






16. Cognitive dissonance theory






17. 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






18. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






20. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






22. 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






23. 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






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






25. Just world bias






26. 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)






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






28. Theory of reasoned action






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






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






31. Elaboration likelihood model






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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


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






36. 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)






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






44. Groupthink






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






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






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