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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
deindividuation
Lee Ross
Illusory correlation
Objective self-awareness
2. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Self-monitoring
Overjustification effect
Illusory correlation
Elaine Hatfield
3. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
False consensus bias
Social Psychology
Self-serving attributional bias
Self-perception theory
4. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Halo effect
Door-in-the-face
Risky shift
Field theory
5. Dislike(-) - like (+) - balance if 1 or 3 + - imbalance if 0 or 2 + - too simplistic - Balance exists when all 3 fit together harmoniously - when there sin'T balance - there will be stress - and a tendency to remove stress by achieving balance
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Self-perception theory
Trucking company game
6. 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)
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Richard Lazarus
Elaine Hatfield
Passionate love
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
Daryl Bem
Self-perception theory
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Acceptance
8. Doll preference studies
bystander effect
Base-rate fallacy
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
9. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Self-perception theory
Sunk cost
Reciprocity of disclosure
Overjustification effect
10. 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
Acceptance
Leon Festinger
Impression management
Philip Zimbardo
11. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Risky shift
Overjustification effect
Ellen Langer
12. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Compliance
Hindsight bias
doll preference studies
Prisoner'S dilemma
13. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Richard Nisbett
M. Rokeach
14. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Risky shift
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Availability heuristic
Hazel Markus
15. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Self-serving attributional bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Robbers' cave experiment
Social Psychology
16. 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
Representativeness heuristic
Social Psychology
Gain-loss theory
Compassionate love
17. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Door-in-the-face
Richard Nisbett
Social exchange theory
Daryl Bem
18. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Field theory
Mere-exposure effect
Richard Lazarus
Peter principle
19. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Reciprocal interaction
Stimulus-overload theory
Henry Landsberger
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
20. 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
Gain-loss theory
Representativeness heuristic
Muzafer Sherif
Self-presentation
21. 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)
Base-rate fallacy
Paul Ekman
diffusion of responsibility
Bogus pipeline
22. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Robert Zajonc
elaboration likelihood model
Balance theory
Solomon Asch
23. Heider; how people infer causes of other'S behaviour; attribute intentions and emotions to almost anything - even shapes on a screen; 3 elements: locus - stability - controllability
Attribution theory
Social loafing
Inoculation theory
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
24. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Social comparison
Reactance
Philip Zimbardo
Richard Nisbett
25. 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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26. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Compliance
McGuire
Door-in-the-face
Self-presentation
27. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
deindividuation
elaboration likelihood model
doll preference studies
28. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Self-presentation
Attitude
deindividuation
Actor-observer attributional divergence
29. Cognitive dissonance theory
Leon Festinger
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Solomon Asch
Prisoner'S dilemma
30. 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
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Solomon Asch
Social Psychology
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
31. 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
James Stoner
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Sleeper effect
Just world bias
32. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Social loafing
Sunk cost
Attraction (in order of importance)
Richard Lazarus
33. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Gain-loss theory
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Social support network
34. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Lee Ross
Passionate love
Overjustification effect
Role
35. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Harold Kelley
Leonard Berkowitz
Balance theory
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
36. 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
Impression management
Sociotechnical systems
Hindsight bias
37. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
False consensus bias
Stuart Valins
Group polarization
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
38. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Balance theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Solomon Asch
Stanley MIlgram (study)
39. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Pluralistic ignorance
Self-presentation
Sunk cost
Equity theory
40. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Richard Nisbett
Halo effect
Inoculation theory
Base-rate fallacy
41. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Reciprocal socialization
M. Rokeach
Social comparison
Richard Nisbett
42. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Life space
Contact (Groups)
Bogus pipeline
Lee Ross
43. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Compassionate love
Impression management
Reciprocity of disclosure
deindividuation
44. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Balance theory
Self-fulfilling prophecy
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Walter Dill Scott
45. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
bystander effect
Life space
Robert Zajonc
Stimulus-overload theory
46. 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
Attribution theory
M. Rokeach
Halo effect
J. Rodin and E. Langer
47. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Social exchange theory
Social facilitation
Self-monitoring
Fritz Heider
48. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Life space
Mere-exposure effect
Morton Deutsch
49. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Availability heuristic
elaboration likelihood model
Reactance
50. 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
Barrier (life space)
Groupthink
Stimulus-overload theory
Social comparison