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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Walter Dill Scott
Robbers' cave experiment
Social facilitation
Equity theory
2. 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
Norman Triplett
Just world bias
Paul Ekman
Henry Landsberger
3. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Bogus pipeline
Cognitive dissonance theory
Role
4. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Role
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Balance theory
Door-in-the-face
5. 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
Balance theory
Gain-loss theory
Robbers' cave experiment
Pluralistic ignorance
6. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Leon Festinger
Overjustification effect
Solomon Asch
Walter Dill Scott
7. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Door-in-the-face
Sociotechnical systems
Barrier (life space)
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
8. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
deindividuation
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Philip Zimbardo
Barrier (life space)
9. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Henry Landsberger
Walter Dill Scott
Social exchange theory
Availability heuristic
10. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
Prisoner'S dilemma
Self-monitoring
doll preference studies
11. 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
M.J.Lerner
Barrier (life space)
Trucking company game
Lee Ross
12. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Elaine Hatfield
Leonard Berkowitz
Richard Lazarus
Actor-observer attributional divergence
13. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Harold Kelley
Stimulus-overload theory
Groupthink
14. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Slippery slope
Attitude
Social facilitation
Group polarization
15. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
Compliance
Vector (life space)
Morton Deutsch
J. Rodin and E. Langer
16. Groupthink
Irving Janis
McGuire
Reciprocal socialization
Robert Zajonc
17. 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
Leon Festinger
Walter Dill Scott
Morton Deutsch
Objective self-awareness
18. 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
Prisoner'S dilemma
Leon Festinger
Risky shift
19. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Solomon Asch
Barrier (life space)
bystander effect
Balance theory
20. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Ellen Langer
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Pluralistic ignorance
Daryl Bem
21. 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
Gain-loss theory
Halo effect
Prisoner'S dilemma
Self-presentation
22. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Social Psychology
Stuart Valins
Irving Janis
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
23. 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
Attribution theory
Mere-exposure effect
Self-monitoring
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
24. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Risky shift
Henry Landsberger
Valence (life space)
Self-presentation
25. 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
Reciprocal socialization
deindividuation
Richard Nisbett
Sleeper effect
26. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Groupthink
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Oversimplification
27. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Social exchange theory
Hazel Markus
Social support network
Paul Ekman
28. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Self-perception theory
Life space
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Social comparison
29. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Robert Zajonc
Social comparison
Richard Lazarus
Social facilitation
30. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Slippery slope
Robert Zajonc
Impression management
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
31. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Inoculation theory
Bogus pipeline
Trucking company game
Vector (life space)
32. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Sleeper effect
Representativeness heuristic
Self-monitoring
33. The total influences upon individual behavior
Pluralistic ignorance
Field theory
Fritz Heider
deindividuation
34. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Sleeper effect
Compliance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Robert Zajonc
35. Cognitive dissonance theory
Overjustification effect
competition
Leon Festinger
Gain-loss theory
36. 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)
Sleeper effect
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Dissenter
Fritz Heider
37. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Reciprocal socialization
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Social loafing
Lee Ross
38. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
doll preference studies
Overjustification effect
Illusory correlation
Valence (life space)
39. Prejudice - showed group conflict most effectively overcome by need for cooperative attention to a higher superordinate goal; 2 groups of 12-year-old boys - 3 phases of group dynamics: in-group phase (bonding with own group) - friction phase (groups
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40. 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
Lee Ross
Solomon Asch
Richard Nisbett
Leon Festinger
41. 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
Conformity (types)
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Just world bias
42. 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
Trucking company game
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Passionate love
False consensus bias
43. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Conformity (types)
Attraction (in order of importance)
Self-perception theory
Equity theory
44. 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)
Objective self-awareness
Balance theory
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Passionate love
45. Person who speaks out against majority
Dissenter
M.J.Lerner
bystander effect
Social facilitation
46. Just world bias
Leonard Berkowitz
Dissenter
Oversimplification
M.J.Lerner
47. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Fritz Heider
Sunk cost
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Norman Triplett
48. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Social support network
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Availability heuristic
elaboration likelihood model
49. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Valence (life space)
Dissenter
Leon Festinger
Stanley Milgram
50. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Stuart Valins
Trucking company game
Reciprocal interaction
Dissenter