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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. 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






4. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health






5. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






6. 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






7. 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






8. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. Cognitive dissonance theory






18. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






19. 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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20. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






22. Theory of reasoned action






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






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






25. Groups take greater risks than individuals






26. 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






27. 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






28. Doll preference studies






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. 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 -






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






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






40. Particularly positive self-presentation is influencial on behaviour - we act in ways that align with our attitudes or in ways that will be accepted by others; self-monitoring; impression management






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






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






43. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






45. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do






46. 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






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






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






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






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