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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Oversimplification
Norman Triplett
Impression management
Acceptance
2. Attribution theory - balance theory
Stanley Milgram
Social loafing
Self-monitoring
Fritz Heider
3. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Objective self-awareness
Self-monitoring
Morton Deutsch
bystander effect
4. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Muzafer Sherif
Compassionate love
Bogus pipeline
Base-rate fallacy
5. 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
Actor-observer attributional divergence
M. Rokeach
Representativeness heuristic
Availability heuristic
6. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
bystander effect
False consensus bias
Kurt Lewin
Attribution theory
7. Occurs when individual identity or accountability is de-emphasized - may be the result of mingling in a crowd - wearing uniforms - or otherwise adopting a larger group identity
Conformity (types)
J. Rodin and E. Langer
deindividuation
Muzafer Sherif
8. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Henry Landsberger
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Barrier (life space)
Pluralistic ignorance
9. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Attitude
Availability heuristic
Harold Kelley
Bogus pipeline
10. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Groupthink
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Sunk cost
Hawthorne effect
11. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Sociotechnical systems
Harold Kelley
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
12. 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
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Reciprocity of disclosure
Philip Zimbardo
False consensus bias
13. 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
Inoculation theory
Passionate love
False consensus bias
Solomon Asch
14. 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
Stuart Valins
M.J.Lerner
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Oversimplification
15. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
doll preference studies
Social support network
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Peter principle
16. 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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17. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
James Stoner
Acceptance
False consensus bias
bystander effect
18. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Self-serving attributional bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Self-fulfilling prophecy
19. 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
Stanley Milgram
Social comparison
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Paul Ekman
20. 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)
Daryl Bem
Reciprocal interaction
Sunk cost
21. 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
Representativeness heuristic
Just world bias
Compassionate love
Dissenter
22. 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
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Illusory correlation
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Irving Janis
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
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Self-presentation
Conformity (types)
Door-in-the-face
24. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
False consensus bias
Stuart Valins
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
25. 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
Impression management
Objective self-awareness
Mere-exposure effect
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
26. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Slippery slope
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Groupthink
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
27. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Compliance
Walter Dill Scott
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Balance theory
28. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Social support network
Groupthink
Attribution theory
Risky shift
29. Persuasive communication from a source of low credibility may become more acceptable later; perhaps memory+discounting cue is severed over time - later recalling a source is less available - or differential decay: impact of cue decays faster than mes
Leon Festinger
Sleeper effect
Elaine Hatfield
Stimulus-overload theory
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
Philip Zimbardo
Halo effect
Muzafer Sherif
Contact (Groups)
31. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Role
Objective self-awareness
M.J.Lerner
32. 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
Risky shift
False consensus bias
Solomon Asch
Groupthink
33. The total influences upon individual behavior
Balance theory
Field theory
Sleeper effect
Stanley MIlgram (study)
34. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Compliance
Sleeper effect
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Norman Triplett
35. 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
Peter principle
Morton Deutsch
Cognitive dissonance theory
Fritz Heider
36. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Group polarization
Oversimplification
Self-perception theory
Philip Zimbardo
37. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Slippery slope
Gain-loss theory
Peter principle
Hindsight bias
38. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Illusory correlation
Life space
Representativeness heuristic
Prisoner'S dilemma
39. 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
Risky shift
Objective self-awareness
Contact (Groups)
Paul Ekman
40. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Attitude
Inoculation theory
Richard Lazarus
Ellen Langer
41. 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
Balance theory
Reciprocal interaction
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Ingroup/outgroup bias
42. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Attraction (in order of importance)
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Irving Janis
Social exchange theory
43. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Stimulus-overload theory
Paul Ekman
Inoculation theory
Leonard Berkowitz
44. 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
Norman Triplett
Self-perception theory
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
deindividuation
45. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Risky shift
Social exchange theory
Hazel Markus
Fritz Heider
46. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Groupthink
M.J.Lerner
Attribution theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
47. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Henry Landsberger
Self-serving attributional bias
Social comparison
competition
48. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Social exchange theory
Pluralistic ignorance
Overjustification effect
Vector (life space)
49. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Gain-loss theory
Bogus pipeline
Field theory
Hindsight bias
50. Assuming most other people think as you do
Paul Ekman
False consensus bias
Hindsight bias
McGuire