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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Solomon Asch
Irving Janis
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Social loafing
2. Group polarization
Hawthorne effect
Philip Zimbardo
Just world bias
James Stoner
3. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Self-perception theory
Stanley Milgram
Door-in-the-face
Sleeper effect
4. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Oversimplification
M.J.Lerner
Reciprocal socialization
5. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Barrier (life space)
Overjustification effect
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Social Psychology
6. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Compliance
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Harold Kelley
Dissenter
7. 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
Life space
Social Psychology
Balance theory
Groupthink
8. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Walter Dill Scott
Field theory
Paul Ekman
9. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Passionate love
Muzafer Sherif
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
10. 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)
Solomon Asch
Pluralistic ignorance
Passionate love
Paul Ekman
11. 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
Slippery slope
Paul Ekman
Field theory
McGuire
12. 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
Attraction (in order of importance)
Robbers' cave experiment
Objective self-awareness
Representativeness heuristic
13. 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
Social support network
Morton Deutsch
Base-rate fallacy
14. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Robbers' cave experiment
Slippery slope
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Kurt Lewin
15. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
elaboration likelihood model
Robert Zajonc
Slippery slope
J. Rodin and E. Langer
16. Groupthink
Objective self-awareness
Irving Janis
M. Rokeach
Philip Zimbardo
17. 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
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Passionate love
Self-presentation
Henry Landsberger
18. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Overjustification effect
Hawthorne effect
Norman Triplett
competition
19. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Peter principle
Reactance
Attraction (in order of importance)
competition
20. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Stanley Milgram
Just world bias
bystander effect
Compliance
21. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Equity theory
Muzafer Sherif
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Self-presentation
22. 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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23. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Attraction (in order of importance)
Trucking company game
Leon Festinger
Robert Zajonc
24. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Richard Nisbett
Norman Triplett
Conformity (types)
Robbers' cave experiment
25. Assuming most other people think as you do
False consensus bias
James Stoner
Just world bias
Dissenter
26. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Oversimplification
Risky shift
Hawthorne effect
Prisoner'S dilemma
27. 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)
Bogus pipeline
diffusion of responsibility
Contact (Groups)
Reciprocity of disclosure
28. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Hindsight bias
Elaine Hatfield
diffusion of responsibility
Philip Zimbardo
29. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Halo effect
Mere-exposure effect
Ellen Langer
Stuart Valins
30. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Irving Janis
Social support network
M.J.Lerner
Illusory correlation
31. 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
Social exchange theory
Henry Landsberger
elaboration likelihood model
Walter Dill Scott
32. 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-fulfilling prophecy
Trucking company game
Compassionate love
J. Rodin and E. Langer
33. 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
Gain-loss theory
Cognitive dissonance theory
Lee Ross
Contact (Groups)
34. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Social facilitation
Halo effect
Just world bias
35. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Reciprocal interaction
competition
M. Rokeach
36. 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
Leonard Berkowitz
Bogus pipeline
Compassionate love
Sleeper effect
37. Attribution theory - balance theory
Slippery slope
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Solomon Asch
Fritz Heider
38. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
bystander effect
McGuire
Irving Janis
Base-rate fallacy
39. 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
Mere-exposure effect
Just world bias
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Hindsight bias
40. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Attitude
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
doll preference studies
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
41. 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
Sociotechnical systems
Illusory correlation
Solomon Asch
Philip Zimbardo
42. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Philip Zimbardo
Door-in-the-face
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Attraction (in order of importance)
43. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Leonard Berkowitz
Prisoner'S dilemma
Self-perception theory
Representativeness heuristic
44. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
deindividuation
Sociotechnical systems
Contact (Groups)
Balance theory
45. 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
Harold Kelley
Fritz Heider
Self-perception theory
Barrier (life space)
46. Doll preference studies
Sociotechnical systems
Mere-exposure effect
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Leonard Berkowitz
47. 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
Trucking company game
Barrier (life space)
Sleeper effect
Illusion of control
48. 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
Pluralistic ignorance
M. Rokeach
Leonard Berkowitz
Ingroup/outgroup bias
49. 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
McGuire
Availability heuristic
doll preference studies
Valence (life space)
50. 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)
Muzafer Sherif
Representativeness heuristic
diffusion of responsibility
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)