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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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 -
Reciprocal socialization
Self-presentation
Leon Festinger
Hazel Markus
2. Hawthorne effect
Lee Ross
Conformity (types)
Henry Landsberger
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
3. 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
Illusion of control
Self-monitoring
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Attribution theory
4. Illusion of control
Ellen Langer
Compassionate love
Base-rate fallacy
Overjustification effect
5. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Peter principle
Field theory
Robbers' cave experiment
Pluralistic ignorance
6. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Vector (life space)
Leon Festinger
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Reciprocal socialization
7. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Life space
Inoculation theory
Ellen Langer
Conformity (types)
8. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Cognitive dissonance theory
elaboration likelihood model
Inoculation theory
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
9. Person who speaks out against majority
Groupthink
Lee Ross
Henry Landsberger
Dissenter
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. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Self-monitoring
Daryl Bem
Gain-loss theory
Trucking company game
12. Inoculation theory
McGuire
Compassionate love
Impression management
Availability heuristic
13. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Field theory
Hawthorne effect
Social support network
Prisoner'S dilemma
14. Cognitive dissonance theory
Leon Festinger
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Peter principle
Self-fulfilling prophecy
15. When people think there is a higher proportion of one thing in a group than there really is because examples of that one thing come to mind more easily; e.g. read a list - half celebrity names - half random - may think more celebrities than random be
Availability heuristic
Mere-exposure effect
Social Psychology
Social exchange theory
16. 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
Dissenter
Sociotechnical systems
Hawthorne effect
17. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Overjustification effect
Base-rate fallacy
Sociotechnical systems
Leonard Berkowitz
18. 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
Self-perception theory
Groupthink
Objective self-awareness
Door-in-the-face
19. 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
Slippery slope
Sleeper effect
Mere-exposure effect
Representativeness heuristic
20. 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
Social support network
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Trucking company game
21. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Group polarization
Morton Deutsch
Richard Nisbett
Self-fulfilling prophecy
22. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Elaine Hatfield
Base-rate fallacy
Risky shift
Groupthink
23. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Objective self-awareness
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Philip Zimbardo
Social exchange theory
24. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Overjustification effect
Social exchange theory
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
25. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Elaine Hatfield
Ellen Langer
Pluralistic ignorance
Impression management
26. 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
elaboration likelihood model
James Stoner
Sleeper effect
27. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Role
Social exchange theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
M.J.Lerner
28. 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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Robbers' cave experiment
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Mere-exposure effect
29. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Richard Nisbett
Excitation-transfer theory
Acceptance
Availability heuristic
30. 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
Objective self-awareness
Robbers' cave experiment
M. Rokeach
Overjustification effect
31. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
McGuire
Halo effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Door-in-the-face
32. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Valence (life space)
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Henry Landsberger
33. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Attraction (in order of importance)
Self-serving attributional bias
False consensus bias
Robert Zajonc
34. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
doll preference studies
Just world bias
Role
Groupthink
35. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Fritz Heider
Self-fulfilling prophecy
36. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Pluralistic ignorance
False consensus bias
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Robert Zajonc
37. 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
Objective self-awareness
Walter Dill Scott
Social support network
Illusion of control
38. Groupthink
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
M.J.Lerner
Irving Janis
Kurt Lewin
39. 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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40. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Social support network
Elaine Hatfield
M. Rokeach
Daryl Bem
41. 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
Field theory
Attribution theory
Trucking company game
Sociotechnical systems
42. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Lee Ross
Leon Festinger
Halo effect
Social facilitation
43. 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
Groupthink
Attraction (in order of importance)
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Stimulus-overload theory
44. Attribution theory - balance theory
Fritz Heider
Illusion of control
Barrier (life space)
Robbers' cave experiment
45. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Compassionate love
Field theory
Sunk cost
Risky shift
46. 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)
Passionate love
Stanley Milgram
Prisoner'S dilemma
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
47. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Reciprocal interaction
Harold Kelley
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Peter principle
48. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Sleeper effect
Stuart Valins
Reciprocity of disclosure
Field theory
49. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Bogus pipeline
Risky shift
bystander effect
Just world bias
50. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Reciprocal socialization
Ellen Langer
McGuire
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
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