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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Bogus pipeline
Compassionate love
2. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Attraction (in order of importance)
Stuart Valins
False consensus bias
Door-in-the-face
3. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Illusory correlation
Balance theory
Social support network
Just world bias
4. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Role
Richard Lazarus
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social support network
5. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Richard Nisbett
Contact (Groups)
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Pluralistic ignorance
6. 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
Richard Lazarus
Acceptance
Attitude
7. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Groupthink
Reciprocity of disclosure
elaboration likelihood model
8. 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
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social exchange theory
Stanley Milgram
Social comparison
9. 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
Inoculation theory
Group polarization
Stimulus-overload theory
Walter Dill Scott
10. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Oversimplification
Harold Kelley
Leonard Berkowitz
Actor-observer attributional divergence
11. Elaboration likelihood model
Representativeness heuristic
Paul Ekman
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Reciprocal socialization
12. 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
Door-in-the-face
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Sociotechnical systems
Self-presentation
13. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Compliance
Reciprocity of disclosure
Kurt Lewin
Daryl Bem
14. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Barrier (life space)
Kurt Lewin
Social support network
Self-perception theory
15. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Compassionate love
Reciprocity of disclosure
Valence (life space)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
16. The total influences upon individual behavior
Fritz Heider
Valence (life space)
Base-rate fallacy
Field theory
17. 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
Social facilitation
Trucking company game
Mere-exposure effect
Solomon Asch
18. 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
Richard Nisbett
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Self-fulfilling prophecy
19. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Just world bias
Slippery slope
Acceptance
20. Hawthorne effect
Reciprocity of disclosure
Hazel Markus
Henry Landsberger
Stanley Milgram
21. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Group polarization
Compliance
Norman Triplett
Attribution theory
22. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Stuart Valins
Philip Zimbardo
Leon Festinger
Group polarization
23. Self-perception theory
Walter Dill Scott
Daryl Bem
Balance theory
Halo effect
24. 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
Passionate love
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Norman Triplett
Social support network
25. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Just world bias
Compassionate love
Paul Ekman
Impression management
26. 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 -
Slippery slope
Richard Lazarus
Sociotechnical systems
Hazel Markus
27. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Excitation-transfer theory
Attraction (in order of importance)
Overjustification effect
28. Attribution theory - balance theory
Fritz Heider
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Representativeness heuristic
29. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Dissenter
Ellen Langer
Base-rate fallacy
Social comparison
30. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday
Field theory
Trucking company game
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Self-perception theory
31. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Sunk cost
McGuire
Robert Zajonc
Hindsight bias
32. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Objective self-awareness
McGuire
Trucking company game
Pluralistic ignorance
33. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Reciprocal socialization
Acceptance
Gain-loss theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
34. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Sociotechnical systems
Morton Deutsch
elaboration likelihood model
Muzafer Sherif
35. 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
Representativeness heuristic
Balance theory
Impression management
Cognitive dissonance theory
36. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
James Stoner
Acceptance
Group polarization
Gain-loss theory
37. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Just world bias
Daryl Bem
Vector (life space)
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
38. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Attitude
Reciprocal interaction
doll preference studies
Social loafing
39. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Just world bias
Stanley Milgram
Elaine Hatfield
Pluralistic ignorance
40. 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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41. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Reciprocal socialization
Representativeness heuristic
Halo effect
Gain-loss theory
42. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Base-rate fallacy
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Bogus pipeline
M.J.Lerner
43. 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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44. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Social facilitation
Richard Lazarus
Daryl Bem
Compliance
45. 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
Risky shift
Social exchange theory
Philip Zimbardo
Hawthorne effect
46. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Group polarization
Muzafer Sherif
Barrier (life space)
Overjustification effect
47. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Morton Deutsch
Groupthink
Stuart Valins
elaboration likelihood model
48. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
elaboration likelihood model
Inoculation theory
Acceptance
Life space
49. 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
doll preference studies
Stuart Valins
Balance theory
deindividuation
50. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Conformity (types)
Sleeper effect
Social exchange theory
Risky shift