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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Illusion of control
Robbers' cave experiment
Ellen Langer
Objective self-awareness
Social exchange theory
2. 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
Self-perception theory
Hazel Markus
Groupthink
Pluralistic ignorance
3. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Reactance
Overjustification effect
Robbers' cave experiment
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
4. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Prisoner'S dilemma
Richard Lazarus
Harold Kelley
Attitude
5. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Paul Ekman
Kurt Lewin
Gain-loss theory
Group polarization
6. 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
Acceptance
deindividuation
Walter Dill Scott
Vector (life space)
7. 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
deindividuation
Compassionate love
Paul Ekman
Ingroup/outgroup bias
8. 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
Attribution theory
Self-presentation
Ellen Langer
Valence (life space)
9. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Attribution theory
Gain-loss theory
Paul Ekman
Inoculation theory
10. 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
diffusion of responsibility
Objective self-awareness
Sociotechnical systems
Risky shift
11. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Contact (Groups)
Door-in-the-face
Social loafing
Actor-observer attributional divergence
12. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
diffusion of responsibility
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Morton Deutsch
Groupthink
13. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Norman Triplett
Valence (life space)
McGuire
Robbers' cave experiment
14. People act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss; people favour situations that start out negative and end positive - even compared to completely positive situations
Gain-loss theory
Hindsight bias
Sociotechnical systems
Balance theory
15. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Robert Zajonc
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Contact (Groups)
Lee Ross
16. 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
M. Rokeach
Cognitive dissonance theory
elaboration likelihood model
Just world bias
17. 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)
Pluralistic ignorance
Compliance
Passionate love
diffusion of responsibility
18. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Field theory
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Leonard Berkowitz
Leon Festinger
19. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Self-monitoring
bystander effect
Philip Zimbardo
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
20. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Philip Zimbardo
Contact (Groups)
Balance theory
Ingroup/outgroup bias
21. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Self-perception theory
Illusion of control
Social support network
22. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Trucking company game
Barrier (life space)
Social exchange theory
Robert Zajonc
23. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Pluralistic ignorance
Attitude
Stanley Milgram
Lee Ross
24. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Illusion of control
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Elaine Hatfield
Social loafing
25. 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)
James Stoner
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Contact (Groups)
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
26. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Paul Ekman
Norman Triplett
Cognitive dissonance theory
M.J.Lerner
27. Elaboration likelihood model
deindividuation
Passionate love
Impression management
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
28. 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
Illusory correlation
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Philip Zimbardo
Attribution theory
29. Doll preference studies
Daryl Bem
Availability heuristic
Compliance
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
30. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Inoculation theory
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Halo effect
Contact (Groups)
31. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Reciprocal socialization
Bogus pipeline
Social loafing
32. 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
Philip Zimbardo
Solomon Asch
Illusory correlation
Social facilitation
33. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Lee Ross
Door-in-the-face
Reciprocity of disclosure
34. 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
McGuire
Excitation-transfer theory
elaboration likelihood model
35. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Kurt Lewin
Social support network
Social loafing
Trucking company game
36. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Morton Deutsch
Acceptance
Oversimplification
Field theory
37. 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
Social support network
Reciprocity of disclosure
Illusion of control
38. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Door-in-the-face
Illusory correlation
Slippery slope
39. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Kurt Lewin
Illusory correlation
Morton Deutsch
McGuire
40. Theory of reasoned action
Social exchange theory
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Field theory
Leonard Berkowitz
41. Assuming most other people think as you do
False consensus bias
Field theory
Social Psychology
Actor-observer attributional divergence
42. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Balance theory
Vector (life space)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Stanley MIlgram (study)
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
Elaine Hatfield
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Hindsight bias
Field theory
44. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Reciprocal interaction
Stuart Valins
Impression management
Just world bias
45. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Lee Ross
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Stimulus-overload theory
Attitude
46. The total influences upon individual behavior
Ellen Langer
Field theory
Compassionate love
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
47. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Attraction (in order of importance)
Equity theory
Trucking company game
Self-fulfilling prophecy
48. Self-perception theory
Philip Zimbardo
Walter Dill Scott
Group polarization
Daryl Bem
49. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Compassionate love
Excitation-transfer theory
Robert Zajonc
Henry Landsberger
50. Hawthorne effect
Peter principle
Conformity (types)
Social facilitation
Henry Landsberger
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