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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






5. 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)






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






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






8. 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






9. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later






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






11. 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






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






13. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along






14. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






17. Person who speaks out against majority






18. 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


19. Self-perception theory






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






21. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






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






25. 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






26. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups


27. Illusion of control






28. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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






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






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






33. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






49. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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