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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Bogus pipeline
Illusion of control
Compassionate love
Mere-exposure effect
2. 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)
Henry Landsberger
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Representativeness heuristic
3. 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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4. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Richard Lazarus
Attraction (in order of importance)
Stuart Valins
5. Cognitive dissonance theory
Group polarization
Leon Festinger
Lee Ross
Illusory correlation
6. 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
Self-monitoring
Representativeness heuristic
M.J.Lerner
Ingroup/outgroup bias
7. 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
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
diffusion of responsibility
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Self-monitoring
8. Self-perception theory
Daryl Bem
diffusion of responsibility
Leonard Berkowitz
Barrier (life space)
9. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Mere-exposure effect
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Compassionate love
Conformity (types)
10. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Groupthink
Muzafer Sherif
Barrier (life space)
11. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Attribution theory
Reciprocal socialization
Robbers' cave experiment
Sociotechnical systems
12. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Daryl Bem
deindividuation
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Valence (life space)
13. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Hawthorne effect
Balance theory
Contact (Groups)
Attribution theory
14. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Door-in-the-face
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Equity theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
15. 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
doll preference studies
Inoculation theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Philip Zimbardo
16. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Stimulus-overload theory
Morton Deutsch
Illusory correlation
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
17. Theory of reasoned action
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Sunk cost
Robert Zajonc
Actor-observer attributional divergence
18. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Self-serving attributional bias
Mere-exposure effect
Slippery slope
Sociotechnical systems
19. Hawthorne effect
Sleeper effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Henry Landsberger
diffusion of responsibility
20. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Social Psychology
Contact (Groups)
Stuart Valins
21. 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
Impression management
Stuart Valins
Dissenter
22. 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
Stanley Milgram
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Walter Dill Scott
Peter principle
23. 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
Attribution theory
Social comparison
Sleeper effect
Barrier (life space)
24. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
bystander effect
Conformity (types)
Halo effect
Self-monitoring
25. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Door-in-the-face
diffusion of responsibility
Social loafing
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
26. 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
Leonard Berkowitz
Illusory correlation
Hawthorne effect
Paul Ekman
27. 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
Self-perception theory
Muzafer Sherif
diffusion of responsibility
Harold Kelley
28. 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
James Stoner
M. Rokeach
Availability heuristic
Irving Janis
29. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
McGuire
Social loafing
Robbers' cave experiment
Robert Zajonc
30. 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
Prisoner'S dilemma
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
M. Rokeach
Life space
31. 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
bystander effect
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Solomon Asch
32. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
diffusion of responsibility
Reciprocal socialization
Acceptance
Social comparison
33. 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
Illusion of control
Hazel Markus
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
34. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Availability heuristic
Just world bias
Bogus pipeline
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
35. Had subjects listen to 'opinion' of others of which lines were equal - subjects conformed to clearly incorrect opinion of others 33% of the time; unanimity seemed to be influential
Field theory
Stimulus-overload theory
Solomon Asch
Sociotechnical systems
36. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Peter principle
Solomon Asch
Acceptance
Group polarization
37. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Social loafing
Stimulus-overload theory
Social support network
Impression management
38. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Field theory
Groupthink
Sunk cost
Base-rate fallacy
39. Group polarization
James Stoner
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Field theory
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
40. Just world bias
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
M.J.Lerner
Stanley MIlgram (study)
41. Attribution theory - balance theory
Contact (Groups)
Inoculation theory
Fritz Heider
Ellen Langer
42. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Philip Zimbardo
Self-presentation
Hindsight bias
Morton Deutsch
43. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Hawthorne effect
Stanley MIlgram (study)
J. Rodin and E. Langer
doll preference studies
44. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Reactance
Irving Janis
Sleeper effect
deindividuation
45. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Self-presentation
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Lee Ross
46. Groupthink
Irving Janis
Pluralistic ignorance
Group polarization
Social comparison
47. 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 -
Conformity (types)
Stuart Valins
Hazel Markus
Self-serving attributional bias
48. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Halo effect
Kurt Lewin
Fritz Heider
False consensus bias
49. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Impression management
Mere-exposure effect
M. Rokeach
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
50. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Self-monitoring
competition
Norman Triplett
Sociotechnical systems
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