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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment






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






3. Attribution theory - balance theory






4. 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)






5. 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






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






7. 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

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






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






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






12. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






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






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






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






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. Groupthink






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






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






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






22. Inoculation theory






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






24. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






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






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






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






28. 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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29. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer






30. 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






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






32. 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)






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






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






35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge






36. 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






37. Theory of reasoned action






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






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






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






41. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






49. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






50. Cognitive dissonance theory