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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Stuart Valins
Oversimplification
Daryl Bem
Sunk cost
2. Assuming most other people think as you do
False consensus bias
Barrier (life space)
Self-monitoring
Stanley Milgram
3. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Halo effect
diffusion of responsibility
Kurt Lewin
Norman Triplett
4. The total influences upon individual behavior
Leonard Berkowitz
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Hazel Markus
Field theory
5. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Kurt Lewin
bystander effect
Passionate love
6. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Elaine Hatfield
Base-rate fallacy
McGuire
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
7. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Richard Nisbett
Muzafer Sherif
Group polarization
8. 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
Just world bias
doll preference studies
Illusory correlation
9. 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
Halo effect
Acceptance
Solomon Asch
Conformity (types)
10. 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
Leon Festinger
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Self-perception theory
Richard Nisbett
11. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Door-in-the-face
Halo effect
Kurt Lewin
Stanley Milgram
12. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Richard Lazarus
Inoculation theory
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Illusory correlation
13. 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)
Risky shift
Social Psychology
Irving Janis
Passionate love
14. 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
James Stoner
Availability heuristic
Slippery slope
Illusion of control
15. 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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16. 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
Muzafer Sherif
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Self-fulfilling prophecy
17. 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
Irving Janis
Hindsight bias
Reciprocal interaction
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
18. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Sleeper effect
Richard Nisbett
Reciprocity of disclosure
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
19. 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
Reciprocal socialization
Lee Ross
James Stoner
Field theory
20. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Reactance
Social loafing
Contact (Groups)
Reciprocal socialization
21. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Social facilitation
Mere-exposure effect
Pluralistic ignorance
22. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Stuart Valins
Self-serving attributional bias
Robert Zajonc
Balance theory
23. 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
Paul Ekman
Groupthink
Barrier (life space)
Walter Dill Scott
24. Just world bias
Dissenter
M.J.Lerner
Kurt Lewin
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
25. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Muzafer Sherif
Hawthorne effect
Groupthink
Stuart Valins
26. Person who speaks out against majority
Muzafer Sherif
Dissenter
Social support network
Oversimplification
27. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Risky shift
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Henry Landsberger
Equity theory
28. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Compassionate love
Daryl Bem
Attitude
Reciprocal socialization
29. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Morton Deutsch
Robbers' cave experiment
Availability heuristic
Social exchange theory
30. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Social Psychology
Life space
Barrier (life space)
Muzafer Sherif
31. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Balance theory
Reciprocity of disclosure
Reciprocal interaction
Hawthorne effect
32. 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
Kurt Lewin
Self-monitoring
Sleeper effect
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
33. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Illusion of control
Sociotechnical systems
Hazel Markus
Social comparison
34. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Robert Zajonc
Compliance
Role
Stanley MIlgram (study)
35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Paul Ekman
Pluralistic ignorance
Inoculation theory
Robert Zajonc
36. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Self-perception theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Balance theory
37. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Stuart Valins
Groupthink
Attraction (in order of importance)
Social loafing
38. 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
Role
Attitude
Robbers' cave experiment
Cognitive dissonance theory
39. Cognitive dissonance theory
Leon Festinger
Risky shift
Illusory correlation
Social exchange theory
40. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Slippery slope
Morton Deutsch
Sociotechnical systems
Social facilitation
41. Attribution theory - balance theory
Fritz Heider
Ellen Langer
Cognitive dissonance theory
Stimulus-overload theory
42. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Door-in-the-face
Stimulus-overload theory
Group polarization
43. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Mere-exposure effect
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
elaboration likelihood model
44. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Leonard Berkowitz
Kurt Lewin
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Stanley MIlgram (study)
45. 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
Representativeness heuristic
Self-monitoring
M.J.Lerner
Norman Triplett
46. Theory of reasoned action
Compliance
J. Rodin and E. Langer
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Henry Landsberger
47. 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)
Equity theory
Irving Janis
elaboration likelihood model
diffusion of responsibility
48. Illusion of control
Ellen Langer
Representativeness heuristic
Acceptance
Field theory
49. 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
Acceptance
Social support network
Hindsight bias
M. Rokeach
50. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Illusion of control
Reactance
Stanley Milgram
Conformity (types)