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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Contact (Groups)
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Paul Ekman
Robert Zajonc
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
Social exchange theory
Conformity (types)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Cognitive dissonance theory
3. 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
Field theory
Robert Zajonc
Life space
Objective self-awareness
4. The total influences upon individual behavior
McGuire
Acceptance
Field theory
Oversimplification
5. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Richard Nisbett
Attraction (in order of importance)
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
6. 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
Excitation-transfer theory
Sleeper effect
Compassionate love
doll preference studies
7. 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
James Stoner
Norman Triplett
Self-perception theory
Passionate love
8. 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
Elaine Hatfield
Stanley Milgram
Peter principle
Self-presentation
9. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
diffusion of responsibility
Life space
Kurt Lewin
Social Psychology
10. 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 -
Henry Landsberger
Hazel Markus
Dissenter
Availability heuristic
11. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Compassionate love
Slippery slope
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Just world bias
12. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Door-in-the-face
James Stoner
Illusion of control
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
13. Milgram; explains why urbanities are less prosocial than country people; they do not need any more interaction; e.g. emergency situations familiar to city people - novelty for town people will attract attention and help
Field theory
Stimulus-overload theory
Social comparison
Robbers' cave experiment
14. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Stimulus-overload theory
Reciprocal socialization
Social exchange theory
Illusion of control
15. Assuming most other people think as you do
Robbers' cave experiment
False consensus bias
Valence (life space)
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
16. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Social facilitation
Reciprocal socialization
Compassionate love
Self-perception theory
17. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Muzafer Sherif
Leon Festinger
Stuart Valins
Social support network
18. 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)
Passionate love
Peter principle
Self-monitoring
Robert Zajonc
19. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Attraction (in order of importance)
bystander effect
Contact (Groups)
M. Rokeach
20. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Mere-exposure effect
McGuire
Equity theory
Conformity (types)
21. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Norman Triplett
Hazel Markus
Gain-loss theory
Base-rate fallacy
22. 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
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Philip Zimbardo
Hawthorne effect
doll preference studies
23. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Impression management
Mere-exposure effect
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Field theory
24. 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
Representativeness heuristic
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Sociotechnical systems
Bogus pipeline
25. 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
Norman Triplett
Reciprocal socialization
Just world bias
Risky shift
26. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Contact (Groups)
doll preference studies
Sunk cost
Bogus pipeline
27. 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
Stanley Milgram
Stimulus-overload theory
Social support network
Reciprocity of disclosure
28. 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
Balance theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Mere-exposure effect
Social loafing
29. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Acceptance
Stuart Valins
competition
J. Rodin and E. Langer
30. Elaboration likelihood model
Illusion of control
Self-fulfilling prophecy
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Reciprocal interaction
31. 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
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
elaboration likelihood model
Walter Dill Scott
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
32. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Gain-loss theory
Base-rate fallacy
Kurt Lewin
elaboration likelihood model
33. 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)
Role
Representativeness heuristic
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
diffusion of responsibility
34. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Self-serving attributional bias
Attitude
Leonard Berkowitz
Reactance
35. Group polarization
Stimulus-overload theory
Social Psychology
Groupthink
James Stoner
36. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
doll preference studies
Social support network
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Sleeper effect
37. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Reciprocity of disclosure
Equity theory
M.J.Lerner
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
38. Groupthink
Halo effect
Prisoner'S dilemma
Irving Janis
Group polarization
39. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Self-monitoring
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Harold Kelley
Self-fulfilling prophecy
40. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social facilitation
Fritz Heider
Oversimplification
41. Hawthorne effect
Availability heuristic
Richard Nisbett
Henry Landsberger
Irving Janis
42. Person who speaks out against majority
Dissenter
Morton Deutsch
Sleeper effect
Cognitive dissonance theory
43. 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
Paul Ekman
Sunk cost
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
44. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Reciprocal interaction
Door-in-the-face
elaboration likelihood model
Group polarization
45. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Equity theory
Reciprocal socialization
Risky shift
Excitation-transfer theory
46. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Muzafer Sherif
Self-presentation
Robert Zajonc
Illusory correlation
47. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Leon Festinger
M. Rokeach
Vector (life space)
Availability heuristic
48. Doll preference studies
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Stanley Milgram
Hindsight bias
49. 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
Sleeper effect
Henry Landsberger
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
50. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Reciprocity of disclosure
Social facilitation
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
doll preference studies