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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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)






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






3. 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

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






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






7. 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






8. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. Group polarization






15. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






31. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






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

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35. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






36. 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






37. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action






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






39. 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






40. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






41. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






47. 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)






48. 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






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






50. 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