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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Attribution theory - balance theory
Henry Landsberger
Fritz Heider
Trucking company game
Life space
2. Theory of reasoned action
Reactance
Oversimplification
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
James Stoner
3. 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-fulfilling prophecy
Attribution theory
Morton Deutsch
Reactance
4. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Leonard Berkowitz
Passionate love
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Oversimplification
5. 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 -
Stuart Valins
Irving Janis
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Hazel Markus
6. 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
Excitation-transfer theory
Stimulus-overload theory
Peter principle
Ingroup/outgroup bias
7. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
M.J.Lerner
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Leon Festinger
Norman Triplett
8. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Reactance
Oversimplification
Kurt Lewin
Acceptance
9. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Excitation-transfer theory
Bogus pipeline
Mere-exposure effect
Attribution theory
10. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
M.J.Lerner
Attraction (in order of importance)
Walter Dill Scott
Field theory
11. 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
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Role
Door-in-the-face
12. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Peter principle
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Hawthorne effect
13. 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
Stuart Valins
Halo effect
Objective self-awareness
Social comparison
14. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Contact (Groups)
Richard Lazarus
Cognitive dissonance theory
Fritz Heider
15. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Objective self-awareness
Risky shift
Sociotechnical systems
Impression management
16. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Dissenter
Attraction (in order of importance)
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Balance theory
17. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Life space
Stuart Valins
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Compliance
18. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Social exchange theory
Social loafing
Social facilitation
Ellen Langer
19. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Daryl Bem
Reactance
Fritz Heider
Social Psychology
20. 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
Door-in-the-face
Self-perception theory
Self-presentation
Group polarization
21. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Vector (life space)
Life space
Role
Impression management
22. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups
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23. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
elaboration likelihood model
Overjustification effect
Stuart Valins
Oversimplification
24. The total influences upon individual behavior
Stanley Milgram
Reciprocal socialization
Field theory
Barrier (life space)
25. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
Peter principle
Illusion of control
Representativeness heuristic
26. Cognitive dissonance theory
doll preference studies
Self-serving attributional bias
Leon Festinger
Dissenter
27. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Bogus pipeline
Equity theory
Conformity (types)
28. 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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Role
Social comparison
Morton Deutsch
29. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Irving Janis
Morton Deutsch
Illusory correlation
diffusion of responsibility
30. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
elaboration likelihood model
Muzafer Sherif
M. Rokeach
31. 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
Compassionate love
Sunk cost
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Passionate love
32. Studied subjects who were first made to believe a state and then later told it was false. subjects continued to believe the state if they had processed it and devised their own logical explanation for it
Base-rate fallacy
Philip Zimbardo
Hindsight bias
Lee Ross
33. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
James Stoner
Pluralistic ignorance
Base-rate fallacy
Peter principle
34. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Barrier (life space)
Illusory correlation
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Representativeness heuristic
35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Inoculation theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
False consensus bias
36. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Daryl Bem
Harold Kelley
Compliance
Representativeness heuristic
37. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Richard Lazarus
Self-presentation
Door-in-the-face
Irving Janis
38. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Vector (life space)
Acceptance
Robbers' cave experiment
Trucking company game
39. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Hindsight bias
Contact (Groups)
Risky shift
40. 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
Just world bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Irving Janis
41. 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
competition
Trucking company game
Valence (life space)
Reactance
42. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Role
Self-perception theory
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
43. Groupthink
Illusory correlation
Irving Janis
Reciprocal socialization
Representativeness heuristic
44. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Overjustification effect
Leonard Berkowitz
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Role
45. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Valence (life space)
Balance theory
Kurt Lewin
Illusion of control
46. 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
Robert Zajonc
doll preference studies
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
47. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Social exchange theory
Leonard Berkowitz
Slippery slope
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
48. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Valence (life space)
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Walter Dill Scott
Social support network
49. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Base-rate fallacy
Self-monitoring
Compliance
Ingroup/outgroup bias
50. 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
James Stoner
Compassionate love
Self-presentation
Representativeness heuristic