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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. 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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. Group polarization






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






9. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






21. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






22. Groupthink






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






24. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






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






27. Doll preference studies






28. Just world bias






29. 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






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






31. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






32. 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






33. Person who speaks out against majority






34. 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






35. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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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45. 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)






46. Elaboration likelihood model






47. 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






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






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






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







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