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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Social comparison
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Just world bias
2. The total influences upon individual behavior
Self-presentation
Field theory
Paul Ekman
Door-in-the-face
3. 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
Passionate love
Compassionate love
Availability heuristic
Paul Ekman
4. 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
Self-perception theory
Equity theory
Social exchange theory
5. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Hawthorne effect
Self-perception theory
Balance theory
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
6. Assuming most other people think as you do
Social comparison
Pluralistic ignorance
False consensus bias
Balance theory
7. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Sunk cost
Lee Ross
Bogus pipeline
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
8. 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
Self-monitoring
Reactance
McGuire
9. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
Illusory correlation
James Stoner
Solomon Asch
10. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Elaine Hatfield
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Pluralistic ignorance
Social comparison
11. 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
Social facilitation
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Solomon Asch
Richard Nisbett
12. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Excitation-transfer theory
Robbers' cave experiment
Illusion of control
Reciprocal socialization
13. Doll preference studies
Mere-exposure effect
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Ellen Langer
14. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Life space
Gain-loss theory
Conformity (types)
Solomon Asch
15. Inoculation theory
Objective self-awareness
McGuire
Life space
Door-in-the-face
16. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Ellen Langer
Hawthorne effect
Mere-exposure effect
Just world bias
17. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Kurt Lewin
Muzafer Sherif
Stanley Milgram
Vector (life space)
18. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Prisoner'S dilemma
Attitude
Just world bias
Morton Deutsch
19. Person who speaks out against majority
Dissenter
deindividuation
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Attraction (in order of importance)
20. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Barrier (life space)
Illusory correlation
Representativeness heuristic
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
21. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Acceptance
Role
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Base-rate fallacy
22. Self-perception theory
Cognitive dissonance theory
Muzafer Sherif
Attribution theory
Daryl Bem
23. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Dissenter
Illusory correlation
Reactance
Base-rate fallacy
24. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Self-serving attributional bias
Impression management
McGuire
25. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Harold Kelley
Stuart Valins
Halo effect
Dissenter
26. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Norman Triplett
Hazel Markus
Stimulus-overload theory
Passionate love
27. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
elaboration likelihood model
Fritz Heider
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social exchange theory
28. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
diffusion of responsibility
Social facilitation
Overjustification effect
doll preference studies
29. Group polarization
Self-presentation
James Stoner
Social facilitation
Excitation-transfer theory
30. 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
Group polarization
Illusion of control
Social comparison
Mere-exposure effect
31. 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
Irving Janis
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Passionate love
Objective self-awareness
32. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Role
bystander effect
Robert Zajonc
Group polarization
33. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Sleeper effect
Compliance
Compassionate love
Barrier (life space)
34. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Impression management
Equity theory
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Prisoner'S dilemma
35. 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
Attribution theory
Reciprocal interaction
Objective self-awareness
Excitation-transfer theory
36. 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
Paul Ekman
Elaine Hatfield
Sunk cost
37. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Leonard Berkowitz
Illusion of control
Bogus pipeline
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
38. Hawthorne effect
Life space
Henry Landsberger
Solomon Asch
Muzafer Sherif
39. 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)
diffusion of responsibility
Norman Triplett
Pluralistic ignorance
Kurt Lewin
40. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Morton Deutsch
Richard Lazarus
Dissenter
Barrier (life space)
41. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Self-presentation
Cognitive dissonance theory
deindividuation
42. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Inoculation theory
Prisoner'S dilemma
Stanley Milgram
Actor-observer attributional divergence
43. 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
Illusion of control
Elaine Hatfield
Lee Ross
Solomon Asch
44. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Gain-loss theory
Equity theory
Attraction (in order of importance)
diffusion of responsibility
45. 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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Sunk cost
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
False consensus bias
46. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Objective self-awareness
Harold Kelley
competition
Social support network
47. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Compliance
Balance theory
Contact (Groups)
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
48. 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
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Social exchange theory
doll preference studies
Stimulus-overload theory
49. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Availability heuristic
Door-in-the-face
Paul Ekman
Reactance
50. 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
Just world bias
Objective self-awareness
Social comparison
Representativeness heuristic