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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
Solomon Asch
Gain-loss theory
Objective self-awareness
Kurt Lewin
2. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Sociotechnical systems
Attribution theory
Paul Ekman
Illusory correlation
3. 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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4. 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
Muzafer Sherif
Bogus pipeline
Richard Lazarus
Walter Dill Scott
5. Cognitive dissonance theory
Leon Festinger
Balance theory
Hindsight bias
Stimulus-overload theory
6. Doll preference studies
M. Rokeach
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Cognitive dissonance theory
Walter Dill Scott
7. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Mere-exposure effect
Philip Zimbardo
Social facilitation
8. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Group polarization
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Reciprocity of disclosure
elaboration likelihood model
9. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Social Psychology
Life space
Objective self-awareness
Compassionate love
10. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
bystander effect
Passionate love
Inoculation theory
Fritz Heider
11. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Social facilitation
Self-serving attributional bias
Social loafing
Stuart Valins
12. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Life space
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Mere-exposure effect
Valence (life space)
13. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
diffusion of responsibility
Overjustification effect
Social loafing
Compassionate love
14. 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
Paul Ekman
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Muzafer Sherif
15. 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
Lee Ross
Risky shift
Role
16. 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
Leonard Berkowitz
Philip Zimbardo
Mere-exposure effect
Hazel Markus
17. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Philip Zimbardo
Door-in-the-face
Illusion of control
Reciprocity of disclosure
18. 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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19. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Social exchange theory
Hawthorne effect
deindividuation
McGuire
20. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Groupthink
Self-serving attributional bias
Social comparison
Excitation-transfer theory
21. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Richard Lazarus
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Life space
Lee Ross
22. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
bystander effect
Social support network
Walter Dill Scott
Bogus pipeline
23. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Social loafing
Reciprocal interaction
Philip Zimbardo
Self-fulfilling prophecy
24. 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 commander - legitimate-seeming
Stanley MIlgram (study)
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Reciprocal interaction
Attitude
25. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Gain-loss theory
Dissenter
Group polarization
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
26. 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
M.J.Lerner
Reciprocal interaction
Passionate love
Groupthink
27. Theory of reasoned action
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Prisoner'S dilemma
McGuire
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
28. Hawthorne effect
Leon Festinger
McGuire
Henry Landsberger
bystander effect
29. Just world bias
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
M.J.Lerner
Self-perception theory
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
30. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Prisoner'S dilemma
Social support network
Trucking company game
Hindsight bias
31. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Henry Landsberger
Group polarization
Hawthorne effect
Conformity (types)
32. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Sociotechnical systems
Walter Dill Scott
Base-rate fallacy
Richard Lazarus
33. 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
Equity theory
diffusion of responsibility
Inoculation theory
34. 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
Robert Zajonc
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Equity theory
35. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Stuart Valins
Peter principle
Attitude
Robert Zajonc
36. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Norman Triplett
Trucking company game
Mere-exposure effect
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
37. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Excitation-transfer theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Barrier (life space)
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
38. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Reactance
Kurt Lewin
Risky shift
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
39. 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
Role
Hawthorne effect
Social Psychology
Social comparison
40. 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
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Muzafer Sherif
Stanley Milgram
Prisoner'S dilemma
41. 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)
Self-serving attributional bias
diffusion of responsibility
Gain-loss theory
Impression management
42. 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
Ellen Langer
deindividuation
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Stimulus-overload theory
43. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Social exchange theory
Door-in-the-face
Solomon Asch
Life space
44. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Kurt Lewin
Life space
Oversimplification
Compliance
45. 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
Walter Dill Scott
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Excitation-transfer theory
Paul Ekman
46. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Availability heuristic
Richard Nisbett
Halo effect
Bogus pipeline
47. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Acceptance
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
48. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Availability heuristic
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Self-monitoring
49. Deutsch; 2 companies can choose to cooperate and agree on high fixed prices - or compete with lower prices - but lack of complete trust will choose to compete; prisoner'S dilemma in economic terms
Trucking company game
Groupthink
Gain-loss theory
Cognitive dissonance theory
50. Person who speaks out against majority
Kurt Lewin
Dissenter
Risky shift
Social comparison