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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






3. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Elaboration likelihood model






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






23. 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






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






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






26. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






28. Cognitive dissonance theory






29. 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






30. 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






31. Just world bias






32. 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






33. 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






34. Group polarization






35. Person who speaks out against majority






36. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)






37. 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






38. Assuming most other people think as you do






39. Inoculation theory






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






41. 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






42. 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 -






43. 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


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






45. Hawthorne effect






46. 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






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






48. 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






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






50. 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