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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






2. 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 commander - legitimate-seeming






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






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






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. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






12. 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






13. Attribution theory - balance theory






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






15. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






16. 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






17. Theory of reasoned action






18. The total influences upon individual behavior






19. Person who speaks out against majority






20. Self-perception theory






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






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






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






24. 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






25. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors






26. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






27. 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






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






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 students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






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






31. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






32. 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 -






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






42. Just world bias






43. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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






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