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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Prisoner'S dilemma
Leonard Berkowitz
Sociotechnical systems
Fritz Heider
2. 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
Bogus pipeline
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Balance theory
Just world bias
3. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Balance theory
Daryl Bem
Reciprocal interaction
Stuart Valins
4. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Reciprocity of disclosure
Gain-loss theory
Oversimplification
Stuart Valins
5. 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
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Reciprocal socialization
Hazel Markus
6. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Social exchange theory
Attitude
Availability heuristic
James Stoner
7. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Impression management
Norman Triplett
Social comparison
Bogus pipeline
8. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Impression management
bystander effect
Pluralistic ignorance
competition
9. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Morton Deutsch
Fritz Heider
Social support network
competition
10. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Reciprocal socialization
Cognitive dissonance theory
Inoculation theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
11. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Groupthink
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Social support network
Role
12. 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
Walter Dill Scott
Leonard Berkowitz
Sunk cost
Philip Zimbardo
13. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Acceptance
Richard Lazarus
Vector (life space)
Henry Landsberger
14. Just world bias
Compliance
Fritz Heider
M.J.Lerner
Availability heuristic
15. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Hindsight bias
Valence (life space)
Lee Ross
Balance theory
16. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Compliance
Impression management
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Sleeper effect
17. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Base-rate fallacy
Vector (life space)
Harold Kelley
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
18. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Sunk cost
Compliance
Overjustification effect
Life space
19. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Illusion of control
Representativeness heuristic
deindividuation
20. 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
Norman Triplett
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Philip Zimbardo
Valence (life space)
21. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Reciprocal interaction
Peter principle
Door-in-the-face
Paul Ekman
22. Inoculation theory
Illusory correlation
Reactance
Kurt Lewin
McGuire
23. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Stimulus-overload theory
Self-serving attributional bias
Norman Triplett
False consensus bias
24. 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
McGuire
Trucking company game
diffusion of responsibility
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
25. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Kurt Lewin
Life space
Prisoner'S dilemma
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
26. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Just world bias
Morton Deutsch
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
M. Rokeach
27. 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
Solomon Asch
Social support network
Overjustification effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
28. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Compliance
Social loafing
Prisoner'S dilemma
Philip Zimbardo
29. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
M.J.Lerner
Barrier (life space)
Elaine Hatfield
Compliance
30. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Reactance
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Attribution theory
Inoculation theory
31. Attribution theory - balance theory
Harold Kelley
Trucking company game
Philip Zimbardo
Fritz Heider
32. 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
Social facilitation
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Sleeper effect
Elaine Hatfield
33. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
M. Rokeach
Robert Zajonc
Hindsight bias
Irving Janis
34. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Stuart Valins
Acceptance
bystander effect
Elaine Hatfield
35. 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
Social support network
Hawthorne effect
Paul Ekman
Reciprocal interaction
36. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Reciprocal socialization
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
doll preference studies
Halo effect
37. Ellen langer - Belief that you can control things that you actually have no influence on - The driving force behind manipulating the lottery - gambling and superstition
Role
Illusory correlation
Illusion of control
Door-in-the-face
38. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Vector (life space)
deindividuation
Attitude
39. 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)
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Contact (Groups)
Paul Ekman
Kurt Lewin
40. 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
Self-presentation
competition
Halo effect
Attribution theory
41. 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
Objective self-awareness
Richard Lazarus
Hindsight bias
Ingroup/outgroup bias
42. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Leon Festinger
Self-monitoring
Conformity (types)
Robert Zajonc
43. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Robbers' cave experiment
Elaine Hatfield
Slippery slope
Lee Ross
44. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Morton Deutsch
Vector (life space)
45. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
False consensus bias
Role
Robbers' cave experiment
Muzafer Sherif
46. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Stanley Milgram
Hindsight bias
Objective self-awareness
Self-monitoring
47. When people think there is a higher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind more easily; e.g. read a list - half celebrity names - half random - may think more celebrities than random be
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Availability heuristic
Inoculation theory
Stuart Valins
48. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Sociotechnical systems
Equity theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Conformity (types)
49. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Irving Janis
Halo effect
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Hindsight bias
50. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
M.J.Lerner
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Richard Nisbett
Reciprocal socialization