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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






11. Assuming most other people think as you do






12. 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






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






14. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






16. Self-perception theory






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






18. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. Milgram; explains why urbanities are less prosocial than country people; they do not need any more interaction; e.g. emergency situations familiar to city people - novelty for town people will attract attention and help






25. Illusion of control






26. 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






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






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






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






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






32. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






33. Doll preference studies






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






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






36. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






37. Groupthink






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






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






40. The total influences upon individual behavior






41. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






42. Group polarization






43. Cognitive dissonance theory






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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







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