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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

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1. 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






2. 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






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






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






5. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities






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






7. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






8. Person who speaks out against majority






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






10. 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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11. 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






12. Doll preference studies






13. Group polarization






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






15. 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






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






17. 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)






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






19. 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






20. 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)






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






22. 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 -






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






24. Groups take greater risks than individuals






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






32. The total influences upon individual behavior






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






34. 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






35. Inoculation theory






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






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






43. 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






44. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






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






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






47. Just world bias






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






49. 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






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







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