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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Valence (life space)
Robbers' cave experiment
False consensus bias
Slippery slope
2. 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
Groupthink
Representativeness heuristic
bystander effect
3. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Self-serving attributional bias
Kurt Lewin
Inoculation theory
Illusion of control
4. 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
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Availability heuristic
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Halo effect
5. 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
Attribution theory
Role
Self-presentation
Balance theory
6. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Oversimplification
Vector (life space)
Stanley Milgram
Leonard Berkowitz
7. Attribution theory - balance theory
Compliance
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Fritz Heider
Reciprocity of disclosure
8. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
James Stoner
Leon Festinger
Hawthorne effect
Social comparison
9. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Just world bias
Self-serving attributional bias
Objective self-awareness
Contact (Groups)
10. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Hindsight bias
Stimulus-overload theory
Field theory
Leon Festinger
11. 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
Role
Stanley Milgram
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Stimulus-overload theory
12. Illusion of control
elaboration likelihood model
Representativeness heuristic
Ellen Langer
Robbers' cave experiment
13. 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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14. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Morton Deutsch
Vector (life space)
Reactance
Acceptance
15. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
competition
Excitation-transfer theory
Reciprocal interaction
Philip Zimbardo
16. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Attitude
Contact (Groups)
Slippery slope
17. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Conformity (types)
McGuire
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Reciprocal socialization
18. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Morton Deutsch
Self-serving attributional bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
James Stoner
19. Theory of reasoned action
Attribution theory
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Balance theory
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
20. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Illusory correlation
Conformity (types)
Field theory
Halo effect
21. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Morton Deutsch
Hawthorne effect
Equity theory
22. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Compassionate love
Richard Lazarus
diffusion of responsibility
Social Psychology
23. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Self-perception theory
Sleeper effect
Prisoner'S dilemma
Impression management
24. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Field theory
Risky shift
Gain-loss theory
Philip Zimbardo
25. 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
Social loafing
Role
Conformity (types)
26. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Social facilitation
deindividuation
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Hawthorne effect
27. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Bogus pipeline
Barrier (life space)
Leon Festinger
Leonard Berkowitz
28. 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 -
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
diffusion of responsibility
Hazel Markus
Halo effect
29. 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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30. 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
Base-rate fallacy
Norman Triplett
Illusion of control
Gain-loss theory
31. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Mere-exposure effect
Group polarization
Philip Zimbardo
competition
32. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Peter principle
Richard Lazarus
Contact (Groups)
Hindsight bias
33. Self-perception theory
Daryl Bem
McGuire
Prisoner'S dilemma
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
34. Cognitive dissonance theory
Attribution theory
Leon Festinger
Social exchange theory
Availability heuristic
35. Groupthink
Base-rate fallacy
Kurt Lewin
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Irving Janis
36. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Morton Deutsch
Overjustification effect
doll preference studies
Self-monitoring
37. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Compliance
M. Rokeach
Door-in-the-face
Social loafing
38. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Lee Ross
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Equity theory
Groupthink
39. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Attitude
Leon Festinger
Social support network
40. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Sunk cost
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Conformity (types)
41. 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)
Sleeper effect
Vector (life space)
Self-presentation
Passionate love
42. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Illusory correlation
Paul Ekman
Reactance
43. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Cognitive dissonance theory
Social support network
Compliance
M.J.Lerner
44. 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
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Social facilitation
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
45. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
McGuire
Richard Nisbett
Acceptance
Reactance
46. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Passionate love
Halo effect
Reciprocal socialization
Group polarization
47. 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
Reactance
Lee Ross
Social exchange theory
Mere-exposure effect
48. Elaboration likelihood model
Acceptance
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Solomon Asch
Contact (Groups)
49. 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
Sunk cost
Gain-loss theory
Leonard Berkowitz
Slippery slope
50. 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
Robert Zajonc
Stanley Milgram
Field theory