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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Mere-exposure effect
Self-perception theory
Oversimplification
Contact (Groups)
2. 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
Bogus pipeline
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Social support network
Lee Ross
3. 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
Social comparison
Slippery slope
Cognitive dissonance theory
Fritz Heider
4. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Hindsight bias
Oversimplification
Risky shift
Halo effect
5. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Halo effect
Self-monitoring
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Pluralistic ignorance
6. Elaboration likelihood model
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Attitude
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Compliance
7. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Cognitive dissonance theory
Sociotechnical systems
Hindsight bias
8. 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
Group polarization
McGuire
Objective self-awareness
Norman Triplett
9. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
elaboration likelihood model
Slippery slope
Excitation-transfer theory
Base-rate fallacy
10. One of the first to apply psychology to business - specifically in advertising; also involved in helping military implement psychological testing to aid with personnel selection
Stimulus-overload theory
Overjustification effect
Barrier (life space)
Walter Dill Scott
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
Reciprocal socialization
Reactance
Compassionate love
Stimulus-overload theory
12. 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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13. Attribution theory - balance theory
Compliance
Availability heuristic
Fritz Heider
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
14. 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
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Vector (life space)
M. Rokeach
Paul Ekman
15. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Fritz Heider
Door-in-the-face
Gain-loss theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
16. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Illusory correlation
Hawthorne effect
M.J.Lerner
Irving Janis
17. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Social Psychology
Acceptance
Actor-observer attributional divergence
J. Rodin and E. Langer
18. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Robert Zajonc
Balance theory
Richard Nisbett
Daryl Bem
19. 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
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Valence (life space)
Philip Zimbardo
Social facilitation
20. Cognitive dissonance theory
deindividuation
Leon Festinger
Cognitive dissonance theory
Just world bias
21. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Daryl Bem
Objective self-awareness
Social loafing
Social exchange theory
22. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Illusory correlation
Role
Compassionate love
23. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Robert Zajonc
Cognitive dissonance theory
Acceptance
Self-serving attributional bias
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
Paul Ekman
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Cognitive dissonance theory
McGuire
25. Person who speaks out against majority
Philip Zimbardo
Dissenter
Representativeness heuristic
Prisoner'S dilemma
26. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Hawthorne effect
False consensus bias
elaboration likelihood model
Walter Dill Scott
27. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
James Stoner
Equity theory
Richard Lazarus
competition
28. 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)
Passionate love
Robbers' cave experiment
Availability heuristic
Equity theory
29. 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)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
diffusion of responsibility
Self-monitoring
doll preference studies
30. 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
Stanley Milgram
Acceptance
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Cognitive dissonance theory
31. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Muzafer Sherif
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Norman Triplett
Sociotechnical systems
32. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
bystander effect
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Reactance
33. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Stanley Milgram
Social exchange theory
Impression management
Social Psychology
34. 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
Morton Deutsch
Self-perception theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Trucking company game
35. Doll preference studies
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Stuart Valins
36. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Social comparison
Morton Deutsch
Base-rate fallacy
37. 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 -
Morton Deutsch
Self-presentation
Hazel Markus
Inoculation theory
38. Group polarization
Sunk cost
Fritz Heider
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
James Stoner
39. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Attraction (in order of importance)
McGuire
Barrier (life space)
Prisoner'S dilemma
40. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Role
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Kurt Lewin
Social loafing
41. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Kurt Lewin
Self-serving attributional bias
Conformity (types)
Mere-exposure effect
42. 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
Kurt Lewin
Social support network
James Stoner
43. 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
Ellen Langer
Attribution theory
Attitude
Representativeness heuristic
44. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Norman Triplett
Social facilitation
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Irving Janis
45. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Self-monitoring
Reciprocal socialization
Self-perception theory
Hazel Markus
46. 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
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47. Illusion of control
Reciprocity of disclosure
Valence (life space)
Ellen Langer
Social loafing
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
Self-monitoring
Sunk cost
Compliance
Trucking company game
49. 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)
Risky shift
Impression management
Self-presentation
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
50. Groups take greater risks than individuals
competition
doll preference studies
Inoculation theory
Risky shift