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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Attribution theory - balance theory
Fritz Heider
Equity theory
deindividuation
Hazel Markus
2. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Overjustification effect
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Halo effect
Lee Ross
3. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Philip Zimbardo
Reciprocal socialization
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Objective self-awareness
4. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Compliance
Halo effect
Fritz Heider
Robert Zajonc
5. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Attribution theory
Inoculation theory
Groupthink
6. 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
7. 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
Harold Kelley
Equity theory
Stimulus-overload theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
8. 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
Trucking company game
Attraction (in order of importance)
Daryl Bem
Stuart Valins
9. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Illusory correlation
Henry Landsberger
Reciprocal socialization
Groupthink
10. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Availability heuristic
bystander effect
Richard Nisbett
Contact (Groups)
11. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Reactance
Self-monitoring
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Hazel Markus
12. 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
Impression management
Equity theory
Social comparison
Base-rate fallacy
13. Person who speaks out against majority
Oversimplification
Representativeness heuristic
Dissenter
Availability heuristic
14. 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
Just world bias
Social exchange theory
Mere-exposure effect
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
15. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Self-serving attributional bias
Gain-loss theory
Self-monitoring
16. Hawthorne effect
Henry Landsberger
Illusory correlation
Elaine Hatfield
Risky shift
17. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Social support network
Field theory
Norman Triplett
Gain-loss theory
18. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Walter Dill Scott
Compliance
Excitation-transfer theory
Reciprocal socialization
19. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Valence (life space)
Attribution theory
Bogus pipeline
Slippery slope
20. Groupthink
Stuart Valins
Role
Hawthorne effect
Irving Janis
21. 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)
Harold Kelley
Oversimplification
Leonard Berkowitz
Passionate love
22. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Compliance
Sunk cost
Just world bias
23. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Reactance
Impression management
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Paul Ekman
24. 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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Reactance
Stanley MIlgram (study)
M.J.Lerner
25. 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
Henry Landsberger
Ellen Langer
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Inoculation theory
26. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Vector (life space)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Equity theory
27. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Philip Zimbardo
Mere-exposure effect
Stuart Valins
Paul Ekman
28. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Equity theory
Gain-loss theory
Impression management
Hazel Markus
29. 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
Muzafer Sherif
Illusion of control
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Ingroup/outgroup bias
30. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
Social comparison
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Reciprocal interaction
31. Theory of reasoned action
Actor-observer attributional divergence
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
competition
Social comparison
32. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Sunk cost
Field theory
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
33. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Compassionate love
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Dissenter
Representativeness heuristic
34. 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
Door-in-the-face
Fritz Heider
Representativeness heuristic
Robert Zajonc
35. Expert and/or trustworthy - similar to listener - acceptable to listener - overheard rather than obviously influencing - anecdotal - emotional - or shocking - part of a debate rather than one-sided argument
36. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Social Psychology
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Illusory correlation
M. Rokeach
37. 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)
bystander effect
Door-in-the-face
Peter principle
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
38. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Stanley Milgram
Hindsight bias
Elaine Hatfield
competition
39. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Ellen Langer
diffusion of responsibility
McGuire
Barrier (life space)
40. People act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss; people favour situations that start out negative and end positive - even compared to completely positive situations
Role
Gain-loss theory
Leon Festinger
Balance theory
41. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Hazel Markus
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Role
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
42. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Walter Dill Scott
Conformity (types)
elaboration likelihood model
Illusion of control
43. 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
Groupthink
Balance theory
Availability heuristic
Harold Kelley
44. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Vector (life space)
Sleeper effect
Paul Ekman
Oversimplification
45. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Risky shift
Attraction (in order of importance)
Social loafing
M. Rokeach
46. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Balance theory
Hindsight bias
diffusion of responsibility
Reactance
47. 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
M.J.Lerner
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
48. 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
Leon Festinger
Dissenter
Philip Zimbardo
Oversimplification
49. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Morton Deutsch
Robert Zajonc
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Self-monitoring
50. 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
Passionate love
Compassionate love
Self-serving attributional bias
Self-presentation