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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Compassionate love
Social comparison
Leonard Berkowitz
Impression management
2. 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
Peter principle
Norman Triplett
Self-fulfilling prophecy
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
Daryl Bem
diffusion of responsibility
Objective self-awareness
Ingroup/outgroup bias
4. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Objective self-awareness
Sociotechnical systems
Contact (Groups)
5. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social loafing
Hazel Markus
Overjustification effect
6. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Solomon Asch
Impression management
Morton Deutsch
Hindsight bias
7. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Social loafing
Excitation-transfer theory
Ellen Langer
Norman Triplett
8. 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
Irving Janis
Just world bias
Availability heuristic
Social Psychology
9. Assuming most other people think as you do
Cognitive dissonance theory
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Balance theory
False consensus bias
10. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Valence (life space)
Daryl Bem
Dissenter
Self-fulfilling prophecy
11. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Inoculation theory
Dissenter
Cognitive dissonance theory
Elaine Hatfield
12. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Robbers' cave experiment
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Conformity (types)
Irving Janis
13. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Social comparison
Inoculation theory
Social Psychology
Reciprocal socialization
14. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Field theory
diffusion of responsibility
Door-in-the-face
Fritz Heider
15. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Muzafer Sherif
Halo effect
Social loafing
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
16. 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)
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Attribution theory
Passionate love
Robert Zajonc
17. 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
Availability heuristic
M. Rokeach
Henry Landsberger
Bogus pipeline
18. 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 -
Contact (Groups)
Self-serving attributional bias
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Hazel Markus
19. 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)
diffusion of responsibility
Social comparison
Social facilitation
Pluralistic ignorance
20. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Reciprocity of disclosure
Inoculation theory
Prisoner'S dilemma
Ingroup/outgroup bias
21. 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
competition
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Representativeness heuristic
Stanley Milgram
22. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Compassionate love
Reciprocal socialization
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Objective self-awareness
23. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Hindsight bias
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
M.J.Lerner
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
24. 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
Lee Ross
Prisoner'S dilemma
Groupthink
Conformity (types)
25. 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
deindividuation
Overjustification effect
Acceptance
Availability heuristic
26. Person who speaks out against majority
Dissenter
Oversimplification
Harold Kelley
Halo effect
27. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Base-rate fallacy
Sunk cost
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
28. Elaboration likelihood model
elaboration likelihood model
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Attraction (in order of importance)
Field theory
29. 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
Valence (life space)
Representativeness heuristic
Solomon Asch
Social facilitation
30. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Philip Zimbardo
Bogus pipeline
Reciprocal interaction
Henry Landsberger
31. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Slippery slope
Leonard Berkowitz
Attraction (in order of importance)
32. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Reactance
Life space
Social comparison
33. Theory of reasoned action
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
deindividuation
Barrier (life space)
Stanley Milgram
34. 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
False consensus bias
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Passionate love
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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Lee Ross
Excitation-transfer theory
Pluralistic ignorance
36. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
deindividuation
competition
37. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Stanley Milgram
Reciprocity of disclosure
Bogus pipeline
doll preference studies
38. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Base-rate fallacy
Social loafing
Norman Triplett
Groupthink
39. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Just world bias
Richard Lazarus
Overjustification effect
Elaine Hatfield
40. 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
Self-perception theory
Sleeper effect
M. Rokeach
Group polarization
41. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Social loafing
Muzafer Sherif
Harold Kelley
Leon Festinger
42. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
doll preference studies
Sociotechnical systems
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Pluralistic ignorance
43. 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
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Stanley Milgram
Fritz Heider
Slippery slope
44. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Field theory
Illusory correlation
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
45. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Halo effect
Oversimplification
Reciprocal socialization
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
46. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Attitude
Prisoner'S dilemma
Representativeness heuristic
Social support network
47. Inoculation theory
M. Rokeach
Paul Ekman
Field theory
McGuire
48. 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
Illusion of control
Base-rate fallacy
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Trucking company game
49. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Reciprocal socialization
Equity theory
Illusion of control
50. Doll preference studies
Prisoner'S dilemma
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Hindsight bias
Illusion of control