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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. Persuasive communication from a source of low credibility may become more acceptable later; perhaps memory+discounting cue is severed over time - later recalling a source is less available - or differential decay: impact of cue decays faster than mes






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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






13. 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






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






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






17. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






20. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various






21. 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)






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






23. Just world bias






24. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






25. The tendency that the larger the group - the less likely individuals in the group will act or take responsibility - result of deindividuation (Kitty Genovese care)






26. Inoculation theory






27. Groupthink






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






30. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






31. 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






32. 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






33. Theory of reasoned action






34. One of the first to apply psychology to business - specifically in advertising; also involved in helping military implement psychological testing to aid with personnel selection






35. 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






36. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. Hawthorne effect






48. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






49. 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






50. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style