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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






3. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






4. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






5. Person who speaks out against majority






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






7. 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






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






9. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






11. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups


12. 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






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






14. 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






15. Assuming most other people think as you do






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






17. Illusion of control






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






19. Groups take greater risks than individuals






20. Groupthink






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






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






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






24. 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


25. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis






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






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






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






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






30. 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)






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






35. Hawthorne effect






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






37. 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






38. M.J. Lerner - The belief that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people - it is uncomfortable for people to accept that bad things happen to good people - so they blame the victim






39. 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






40. Self-perception theory






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






42. Dislike(-) - like (+) - balance if 1 or 3 + - imbalance if 0 or 2 + - too simplistic - Balance exists when all 3 fit together harmoniously - when there sin'T balance - there will be stress - and a tendency to remove stress by achieving balance






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






44. 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






45. 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)






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday