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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Illusion of control
Reactance
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Robert Zajonc
Ellen Langer
2. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Self-presentation
Barrier (life space)
Inoculation theory
Social loafing
3. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Attitude
Dissenter
Self-serving attributional bias
Slippery slope
4. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Impression management
Attitude
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Valence (life space)
5. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Cognitive dissonance theory
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Valence (life space)
6. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Overjustification effect
Life space
Illusory correlation
J. Rodin and E. Langer
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
Harold Kelley
Stuart Valins
Cognitive dissonance theory
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
8. 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
Sleeper effect
Reciprocity of disclosure
Valence (life space)
deindividuation
9. People act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss; people favour situations that start out negative and end positive - even compared to completely positive situations
Gain-loss theory
Ellen Langer
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
10. 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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11. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Vector (life space)
Attraction (in order of importance)
Objective self-awareness
Door-in-the-face
12. Person who speaks out against majority
McGuire
Fritz Heider
Self-serving attributional bias
Dissenter
13. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Kurt Lewin
Morton Deutsch
Stuart Valins
Balance theory
14. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Henry Landsberger
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Philip Zimbardo
Risky shift
15. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Excitation-transfer theory
Representativeness heuristic
elaboration likelihood model
Sunk cost
16. 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
Compassionate love
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Illusion of control
Self-serving attributional bias
17. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Henry Landsberger
Passionate love
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Reciprocity of disclosure
18. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
McGuire
Illusion of control
False consensus bias
Self-monitoring
19. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various
Reciprocal socialization
diffusion of responsibility
Door-in-the-face
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
20. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
diffusion of responsibility
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Elaine Hatfield
21. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Reciprocity of disclosure
Balance theory
Overjustification effect
Self-perception theory
22. Theory of reasoned action
Role
Sunk cost
Social facilitation
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
23. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Attribution theory
Acceptance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Social Psychology
24. Group polarization
James Stoner
Philip Zimbardo
Stanley Milgram
Inoculation theory
25. 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
bystander effect
Self-serving attributional bias
Stanley Milgram
Cognitive dissonance theory
26. 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)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Sleeper effect
doll preference studies
27. 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
Objective self-awareness
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Contact (Groups)
28. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Mere-exposure effect
doll preference studies
Door-in-the-face
Social facilitation
29. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Reactance
Richard Lazarus
False consensus bias
Trucking company game
30. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Solomon Asch
Contact (Groups)
Sleeper effect
Reciprocal socialization
31. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Compliance
Illusion of control
Passionate love
doll preference studies
32. 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
Sunk cost
Contact (Groups)
Inoculation theory
Hazel Markus
33. 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
competition
Attraction (in order of importance)
Reciprocal socialization
M. Rokeach
34. 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
Base-rate fallacy
Solomon Asch
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Illusory correlation
35. Assuming most other people think as you do
Reactance
False consensus bias
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Halo effect
36. 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
Gain-loss theory
Objective self-awareness
Base-rate fallacy
Just world bias
37. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
M.J.Lerner
False consensus bias
Social support network
Dissenter
38. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Door-in-the-face
Overjustification effect
Stimulus-overload theory
Dissenter
39. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Richard Nisbett
Kurt Lewin
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Bogus pipeline
40. 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
Stuart Valins
Just world bias
Attribution theory
Walter Dill Scott
41. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -
Reactance
Excitation-transfer theory
Balance theory
Hazel Markus
42. Cognitive dissonance theory
Leon Festinger
Illusory correlation
competition
Objective self-awareness
43. Self-perception theory
Risky shift
Daryl Bem
Harold Kelley
Door-in-the-face
44. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Solomon Asch
Door-in-the-face
M.J.Lerner
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
45. 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
Stuart Valins
Self-presentation
Self-serving attributional bias
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
46. 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
Sociotechnical systems
Kurt Lewin
Norman Triplett
deindividuation
47. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Reciprocal interaction
Pluralistic ignorance
Social support network
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
48. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Contact (Groups)
Trucking company game
Field theory
49. Just world bias
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Social support network
M.J.Lerner
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
50. 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
Passionate love
Illusion of control
Pluralistic ignorance