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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Hawthorne effect
Illusion of control
Social comparison
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
2. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Field theory
Reciprocal interaction
Life space
Door-in-the-face
3. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Impression management
Oversimplification
elaboration likelihood model
Trucking company game
4. 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
Attribution theory
Lee Ross
Overjustification effect
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
5. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Ellen Langer
Daryl Bem
Social exchange theory
James Stoner
6. 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
Bogus pipeline
Prisoner'S dilemma
Fritz Heider
Objective self-awareness
7. 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
Richard Nisbett
Excitation-transfer theory
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
8. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Norman Triplett
Stuart Valins
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Walter Dill Scott
9. Hawthorne effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Henry Landsberger
Compassionate love
Excitation-transfer theory
10. 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
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Robbers' cave experiment
Solomon Asch
Compliance
11. 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
Balance theory
deindividuation
Harold Kelley
Acceptance
12. 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
Social facilitation
Reciprocal socialization
Lee Ross
Stimulus-overload theory
13. 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
Richard Lazarus
Henry Landsberger
Muzafer Sherif
14. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Paul Ekman
Richard Lazarus
Overjustification effect
Field theory
15. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Hindsight bias
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Life space
Kurt Lewin
16. 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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17. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Ellen Langer
Trucking company game
18. 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)
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Overjustification effect
Sleeper effect
Bogus pipeline
19. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Peter principle
Sociotechnical systems
Ingroup/outgroup bias
20. 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
Walter Dill Scott
Paul Ekman
Pluralistic ignorance
Philip Zimbardo
21. The total influences upon individual behavior
Field theory
Barrier (life space)
Leon Festinger
Paul Ekman
22. 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
Reciprocal interaction
Kurt Lewin
Actor-observer attributional divergence
23. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Compliance
Cognitive dissonance theory
Field theory
24. 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
Trucking company game
J. Rodin and E. Langer
False consensus bias
25. 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
Balance theory
Attribution theory
Illusion of control
Life space
26. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Acceptance
Pluralistic ignorance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
27. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Attitude
Door-in-the-face
Robbers' cave experiment
28. Theory of reasoned action
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
McGuire
Self-serving attributional bias
Dissenter
29. Attribution theory - balance theory
Lee Ross
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Fritz Heider
Attribution theory
30. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Self-monitoring
Walter Dill Scott
Group polarization
Impression management
31. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Sociotechnical systems
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Hawthorne effect
Base-rate fallacy
32. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Solomon Asch
Lee Ross
Balance theory
Stimulus-overload theory
33. 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
James Stoner
Self-presentation
Richard Lazarus
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
34. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Social facilitation
Excitation-transfer theory
Kurt Lewin
Inoculation theory
35. 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
Robert Zajonc
Attraction (in order of importance)
Lee Ross
Valence (life space)
36. 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
Walter Dill Scott
Bogus pipeline
Paul Ekman
Balance theory
37. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
competition
Acceptance
Passionate love
Richard Lazarus
38. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Social loafing
Barrier (life space)
Philip Zimbardo
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
39. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Impression management
Social loafing
Illusion of control
Attribution theory
40. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Elaine Hatfield
Self-monitoring
Contact (Groups)
Cognitive dissonance theory
41. Assuming most other people think as you do
False consensus bias
Slippery slope
Hawthorne effect
Prisoner'S dilemma
42. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Muzafer Sherif
Acceptance
Slippery slope
doll preference studies
43. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Pluralistic ignorance
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Illusory correlation
Elaine Hatfield
44. 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
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Hazel Markus
Sunk cost
Self-presentation
45. Group polarization
James Stoner
Overjustification effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Life space
46. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Halo effect
Social Psychology
Elaine Hatfield
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
47. Self-perception theory
Attribution theory
Group polarization
Daryl Bem
Excitation-transfer theory
48. Doll preference studies
Social comparison
Life space
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Halo effect
49. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Muzafer Sherif
Door-in-the-face
Bogus pipeline
Richard Nisbett
50. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
False consensus bias
competition
elaboration likelihood model
Acceptance
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