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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
doll preference studies
Door-in-the-face
Groupthink
competition
2. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Morton Deutsch
Cognitive dissonance theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Sunk cost
3. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Bogus pipeline
Peter principle
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Gain-loss theory
4. Group polarization
Stanley MIlgram (study)
James Stoner
Stanley Milgram
Social comparison
5. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Kurt Lewin
Trucking company game
Hindsight bias
Group polarization
6. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Reciprocal socialization
Norman Triplett
Self-serving attributional bias
Solomon Asch
7. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Peter principle
diffusion of responsibility
Passionate love
Attraction (in order of importance)
8. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
deindividuation
Equity theory
Vector (life space)
Hawthorne effect
9. Illusion of control
Trucking company game
Pluralistic ignorance
Leonard Berkowitz
Ellen Langer
10. Attribution theory - balance theory
Hawthorne effect
Self-monitoring
Fritz Heider
Sleeper effect
11. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Halo effect
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Trucking company game
12. 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
Philip Zimbardo
Sleeper effect
Robbers' cave experiment
Stuart Valins
13. 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
Hindsight bias
Lee Ross
Risky shift
Door-in-the-face
14. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Sleeper effect
Solomon Asch
Elaine Hatfield
Objective self-awareness
15. 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
Oversimplification
Stanley MIlgram (study)
McGuire
Attribution theory
16. 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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Philip Zimbardo
Life space
diffusion of responsibility
17. 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
Halo effect
Social exchange theory
Norman Triplett
18. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Self-monitoring
Stimulus-overload theory
Social support network
Richard Nisbett
19. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Impression management
Pluralistic ignorance
Illusion of control
Contact (Groups)
20. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Life space
Door-in-the-face
Passionate love
Illusion of control
21. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Base-rate fallacy
Group polarization
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
J. Rodin and E. Langer
22. Person who speaks out against majority
Inoculation theory
Dissenter
Vector (life space)
Self-monitoring
23. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Hindsight bias
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
doll preference studies
24. 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
diffusion of responsibility
Paul Ekman
Role
Balance theory
25. 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
Reciprocity of disclosure
Passionate love
Norman Triplett
Ingroup/outgroup bias
26. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Stanley Milgram
Social facilitation
Halo effect
27. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Mere-exposure effect
Overjustification effect
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Robert Zajonc
28. 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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29. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Contact (Groups)
Passionate love
Oversimplification
Stanley MIlgram (study)
30. Hawthorne effect
Social exchange theory
Norman Triplett
Henry Landsberger
Valence (life space)
31. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Self-serving attributional bias
Reciprocal interaction
Reactance
Morton Deutsch
32. 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
Conformity (types)
Muzafer Sherif
Vector (life space)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
33. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
bystander effect
Vector (life space)
Prisoner'S dilemma
Valence (life space)
34. 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
James Stoner
Illusion of control
Group polarization
Passionate love
35. 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
Illusion of control
Mere-exposure effect
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
36. 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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37. Self-perception theory
Hindsight bias
Daryl Bem
Conformity (types)
Representativeness heuristic
38. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Reciprocal socialization
elaboration likelihood model
Stuart Valins
Mere-exposure effect
39. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Social support network
Excitation-transfer theory
Illusory correlation
Overjustification effect
40. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Harold Kelley
Bogus pipeline
Hindsight bias
Fritz Heider
41. 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
Slippery slope
Door-in-the-face
Robbers' cave experiment
M. Rokeach
42. 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
Stimulus-overload theory
Self-serving attributional bias
Paul Ekman
Reciprocal socialization
43. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Social comparison
Contact (Groups)
Attribution theory
Valence (life space)
44. Assuming most other people think as you do
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social comparison
False consensus bias
Leonard Berkowitz
45. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Self-presentation
Groupthink
bystander effect
Acceptance
46. 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)
Sunk cost
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Compassionate love
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
47. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
J. Rodin and E. Langer
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Illusory correlation
Impression management
48. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Objective self-awareness
Field theory
Pluralistic ignorance
49. Theory of reasoned action
M. Rokeach
Sunk cost
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Attribution theory
50. 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
deindividuation
Halo effect
Leon Festinger
J. Rodin and E. Langer