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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. The tendency that the larger the group - the less likely individuals in the group will act or take responsibility - result of deindividuation (Kitty Genovese care)






8. Groupthink






9. 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






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






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






12. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. Assuming most other people think as you do






18. Code facial expressions for emotion; can determine whether a smile is genuine (happiness engages the upper cheek) or fake (eyes and whole face are less involved)






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






20. 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






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






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






23. Doll preference studies






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. Elaboration likelihood model






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. Studied racial bias and belief similarity - people prefer to be with like-minded people more than like-skinned; racial bias decreases as attitude similarity between people increases






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






34. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






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






36. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






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






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






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






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






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






42. Hawthorne effect






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Theory of reasoned action






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






49. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






50. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks