Test your basic knowledge |

GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

Subjects : gre, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






2. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition






3. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting






4. Group polarization






5. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier






6. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)






7. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain






8. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed






9. Illusion of control






10. Attribution theory - balance theory






11. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






12. 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






13. 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






14. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






18. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable






19. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree






20. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action






21. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift






22. Person who speaks out against majority






23. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better






24. Argued that human have 6 basic emotions: sadness - happiness - fear - anger - surprise - disgust - drew conclusion from cross-cultural studies - individuals could recognize facial expressions corresponding to those six; FACS coding






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






26. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance






27. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks






28. 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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


29. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






30. Hawthorne effect






31. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour






32. 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






33. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


37. Self-perception theory






38. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style






39. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






40. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action






41. 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






42. 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






43. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`






44. Assuming most other people think as you do






45. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present






46. 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)






47. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






48. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health






49. Theory of reasoned action






50. 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