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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Just world bias

2. Elaboration likelihood model

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

4. The total influences upon individual behavior

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

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

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

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

9. 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

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

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

12. Groupthink

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

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

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

16. Doll preference studies

17. Theory of reasoned action

18. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform

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

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

21. 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

22. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance

23. 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

24. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately

25. 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)

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