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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Compliance
Solomon Asch
Pluralistic ignorance
Vector (life space)
2. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Balance theory
Groupthink
3. 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
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Stanley Milgram
Group polarization
4. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Slippery slope
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Robert Zajonc
Richard Nisbett
5. 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
Oversimplification
Mere-exposure effect
Robert Zajonc
6. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Hindsight bias
Illusory correlation
Reciprocal interaction
7. Self-perception theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Slippery slope
Daryl Bem
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
8. Theory of reasoned action
Mere-exposure effect
Sociotechnical systems
Ellen Langer
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
9. 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)
Leon Festinger
Reactance
Social support network
diffusion of responsibility
10. The total influences upon individual behavior
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Equity theory
bystander effect
Field theory
11. 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)
Oversimplification
Impression management
Passionate love
Inoculation theory
12. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Halo effect
Fritz Heider
Solomon Asch
Inoculation theory
13. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Equity theory
Compliance
Richard Nisbett
Henry Landsberger
14. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Halo effect
Peter principle
M.J.Lerner
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
15. Inoculation theory
False consensus bias
Field theory
McGuire
elaboration likelihood model
16. 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
Objective self-awareness
deindividuation
Attraction (in order of importance)
Field theory
17. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Oversimplification
Solomon Asch
Excitation-transfer theory
Robert Zajonc
18. 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
Equity theory
Attitude
Paul Ekman
Reactance
19. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Lee Ross
Gain-loss theory
Compliance
Oversimplification
20. Assuming most other people think as you do
False consensus bias
Pluralistic ignorance
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Kurt Lewin
21. 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
Oversimplification
Stimulus-overload theory
Gain-loss theory
Leon Festinger
22. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Halo effect
Self-serving attributional bias
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Cognitive dissonance theory
23. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
competition
Objective self-awareness
Self-monitoring
Conformity (types)
24. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Social support network
Self-perception theory
Acceptance
Contact (Groups)
25. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Hazel Markus
Lee Ross
Norman Triplett
Self-monitoring
26. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
deindividuation
Daryl Bem
Walter Dill Scott
Stuart Valins
27. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Hazel Markus
Social Psychology
Balance theory
28. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Stuart Valins
Bogus pipeline
Barrier (life space)
elaboration likelihood model
29. 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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30. 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)
Reactance
Bogus pipeline
Group polarization
31. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Risky shift
Equity theory
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Richard Lazarus
32. 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
Sunk cost
Sociotechnical systems
Social support network
33. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Elaine Hatfield
Reciprocity of disclosure
M. Rokeach
Overjustification effect
34. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
bystander effect
Richard Nisbett
Self-fulfilling prophecy
competition
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
Sunk cost
bystander effect
Objective self-awareness
Hindsight bias
36. Elaboration likelihood model
Leonard Berkowitz
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Trucking company game
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
37. 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
Reciprocal interaction
Social facilitation
Lee Ross
Availability heuristic
38. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Kurt Lewin
Barrier (life space)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Attribution theory
39. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Life space
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Richard Lazarus
Compassionate love
40. 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
Self-presentation
Reciprocity of disclosure
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Life space
41. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Impression management
competition
Hawthorne effect
Norman Triplett
42. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Richard Nisbett
Mere-exposure effect
J. Rodin and E. Langer
43. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Door-in-the-face
Lee Ross
Reciprocal interaction
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
44. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Contact (Groups)
Field theory
Illusion of control
Oversimplification
45. Cognitive dissonance theory
Muzafer Sherif
Gain-loss theory
Barrier (life space)
Leon Festinger
46. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
Overjustification effect
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Passionate love
47. Group polarization
James Stoner
Bogus pipeline
Sunk cost
Social Psychology
48. 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
M. Rokeach
Muzafer Sherif
competition
J. Rodin and E. Langer
49. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
James Stoner
Overjustification effect
Bogus pipeline
Conformity (types)
50. Groupthink
Base-rate fallacy
Irving Janis
Robert Zajonc
Attribution theory