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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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






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






4. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






6. 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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7. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract






8. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






10. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






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






12. 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






13. Person who speaks out against majority






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






15. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with






16. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






17. 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






18. 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 -






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






20. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






21. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs






22. Assuming most other people think as you do






23. Elaboration likelihood model






24. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Hawthorne effect






40. 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)






41. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






42. 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






43. Cognitive dissonance theory






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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