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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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 Psychology
Stimulus-overload theory
Mere-exposure effect
Attribution theory
2. 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
Barrier (life space)
Trucking company game
Lee Ross
Paul Ekman
3. Groupthink
Illusory correlation
Irving Janis
Kurt Lewin
Groupthink
4. 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
Social Psychology
Sunk cost
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
5. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Groupthink
bystander effect
Attitude
Just world bias
6. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Base-rate fallacy
Halo effect
Self-fulfilling prophecy
7. Self-perception theory
Daryl Bem
Vector (life space)
Fritz Heider
Attitude
8. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Solomon Asch
Daryl Bem
Bogus pipeline
Reciprocal socialization
9. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Kurt Lewin
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Mere-exposure effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
10. Attribution theory - balance theory
Mere-exposure effect
M.J.Lerner
Fritz Heider
Hawthorne effect
11. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
competition
Muzafer Sherif
Life space
Daryl Bem
12. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Just world bias
Compassionate love
Equity theory
Self-serving attributional bias
13. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
diffusion of responsibility
Self-monitoring
Pluralistic ignorance
Sociotechnical systems
14. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Vector (life space)
Richard Lazarus
Inoculation theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
15. Cognitive dissonance theory
Leon Festinger
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Social support network
Self-perception theory
16. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Attraction (in order of importance)
False consensus bias
Leon Festinger
Morton Deutsch
17. Elaboration likelihood model
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Mere-exposure effect
Social loafing
18. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Self-monitoring
Group polarization
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
19. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
M. Rokeach
Daryl Bem
Stuart Valins
Walter Dill Scott
20. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Illusory correlation
Mere-exposure effect
Contact (Groups)
Attitude
21. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Base-rate fallacy
Hawthorne effect
Just world bias
Illusory correlation
22. Theory of reasoned action
Vector (life space)
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Actor-observer attributional divergence
23. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Leonard Berkowitz
doll preference studies
Overjustification effect
24. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Impression management
Role
Contact (Groups)
Social facilitation
25. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
False consensus bias
Norman Triplett
Door-in-the-face
Reciprocity of disclosure
26. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Harold Kelley
Social exchange theory
Illusion of control
Social facilitation
27. 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
Elaine Hatfield
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Social comparison
28. M.J. Lerner - The belief that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people - it is uncomfortable for people to accept that bad things happen to good people - so they blame the victim
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Sociotechnical systems
Just world bias
Hazel Markus
29. 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
Objective self-awareness
Risky shift
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Social comparison
30. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
J. Rodin and E. Langer
bystander effect
Ingroup/outgroup bias
31. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Door-in-the-face
Morton Deutsch
Equity theory
Peter principle
32. 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
Halo effect
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Illusion of control
Paul Ekman
33. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Oversimplification
Overjustification effect
competition
Compliance
34. Groups take greater risks than individuals
False consensus bias
Mere-exposure effect
Risky shift
Prisoner'S dilemma
35. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Social exchange theory
Self-serving attributional bias
Pluralistic ignorance
Balance theory
36. 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
Valence (life space)
Richard Lazarus
Social loafing
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
Social loafing
Balance theory
Dissenter
Walter Dill Scott
38. 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
McGuire
Morton Deutsch
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
39. 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
Robert Zajonc
Fritz Heider
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
40. 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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41. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Fritz Heider
Excitation-transfer theory
Field theory
Risky shift
42. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Illusion of control
Peter principle
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Availability heuristic
43. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Objective self-awareness
Sleeper effect
Robert Zajonc
Valence (life space)
44. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
M. Rokeach
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Contact (Groups)
45. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Overjustification effect
Peter principle
Richard Lazarus
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
46. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Reactance
Equity theory
Slippery slope
M.J.Lerner
47. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Door-in-the-face
Pluralistic ignorance
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
M.J.Lerner
48. Group polarization
James Stoner
competition
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Kurt Lewin
49. Assuming most other people think as you do
Daryl Bem
False consensus bias
Just world bias
Prisoner'S dilemma
50. 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
Objective self-awareness
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Group polarization
Trucking company game