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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. 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






4. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






5. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






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






9. Elaboration likelihood model






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






11. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment






12. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






13. 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






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






15. Assuming most other people think as you do






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. 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)






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






19. 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






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






21. Group polarization






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






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






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






26. 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






27. Groups take greater risks than individuals






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






29. 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






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






31. Illusion of control






32. Theory of reasoned action






33. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. The total influences upon individual behavior






43. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






44. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






45. Person who speaks out against majority






46. 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






47. 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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48. 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






49. 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






50. 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