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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






2. 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






3. Groupthink






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. Theory of reasoned action






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






13. 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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14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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 commander - legitimate-seeming






18. Groups take greater risks than individuals






19. The total influences upon individual behavior






20. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice






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






22. Person who speaks out against majority






23. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -






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






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






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






27. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






30. Inoculation theory






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






32. 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






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






34. 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)






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






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






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






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






39. Elaboration likelihood model






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






41. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






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






44. Self-perception theory






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






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






50. Assuming most other people think as you do