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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. Group polarization






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






10. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






12. 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






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






14. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)






15. Assuming most other people think as you do






16. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






18. 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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






25. 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






26. Doll preference studies






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






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






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






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






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






37. Inoculation theory






38. 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






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






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






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






42. Groupthink






43. 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






44. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






45. Illusion of control






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






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






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






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






50. 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 -