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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






3. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






4. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






5. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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. 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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Group polarization






13. Cognitive dissonance theory






14. When people think there is a higher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind more easily; e.g. read a list - half celebrity names - half random - may think more celebrities than random be






15. 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






16. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






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






18. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. Elaboration likelihood model






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






24. 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






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






26. Illusion of control






27. 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






28. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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


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






38. Person who speaks out against majority






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






40. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






41. 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)






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






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






44. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed






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






46. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






47. 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 -






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






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






50. 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