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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Muzafer Sherif
Compassionate love
Self-monitoring
Sunk cost
2. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
competition
Sleeper effect
McGuire
Social Psychology
3. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Passionate love
Elaine Hatfield
Oversimplification
Slippery slope
4. 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
Ellen Langer
Solomon Asch
Oversimplification
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
5. 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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6. 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
Daryl Bem
Life space
Attribution theory
Stanley Milgram
7. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Attribution theory
Self-monitoring
Richard Lazarus
8. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Acceptance
Compassionate love
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Social comparison
9. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Vector (life space)
Group polarization
Mere-exposure effect
Ellen Langer
10. 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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11. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Pluralistic ignorance
Vector (life space)
Just world bias
Field theory
12. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Solomon Asch
Just world bias
Social loafing
Morton Deutsch
13. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Risky shift
deindividuation
Sleeper effect
Illusion of control
14. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Reactance
Balance theory
Sociotechnical systems
Acceptance
15. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Leonard Berkowitz
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Stanley Milgram
Inoculation theory
16. Group polarization
Actor-observer attributional divergence
James Stoner
Harold Kelley
Field theory
17. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Philip Zimbardo
Elaine Hatfield
Social comparison
18. Cognitive dissonance theory
Social Psychology
Leon Festinger
Equity theory
False consensus bias
19. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Norman Triplett
Sunk cost
James Stoner
elaboration likelihood model
20. Assuming most other people think as you do
doll preference studies
Excitation-transfer theory
False consensus bias
Self-perception theory
21. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Availability heuristic
Role
Stimulus-overload theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
22. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Base-rate fallacy
Reciprocal interaction
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
23. 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
Group polarization
Social exchange theory
Reactance
Just world bias
24. Inoculation theory
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
J. Rodin and E. Langer
McGuire
M.J.Lerner
25. 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
Paul Ekman
Ellen Langer
Cognitive dissonance theory
26. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Self-perception theory
Attraction (in order of importance)
Availability heuristic
Walter Dill Scott
27. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Norman Triplett
Just world bias
doll preference studies
Leon Festinger
28. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Peter principle
Oversimplification
Reactance
29. 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)
doll preference studies
Oversimplification
Passionate love
Attitude
30. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Representativeness heuristic
McGuire
competition
Attitude
31. 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
Philip Zimbardo
Representativeness heuristic
Robbers' cave experiment
Daryl Bem
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
Richard Nisbett
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Impression management
33. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Kurt Lewin
Objective self-awareness
Reciprocity of disclosure
34. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Hawthorne effect
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Field theory
Door-in-the-face
35. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Richard Nisbett
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
deindividuation
M.J.Lerner
36. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
deindividuation
Equity theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Mere-exposure effect
37. Groupthink
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
M. Rokeach
Irving Janis
Groupthink
38. 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
Hindsight bias
M. Rokeach
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
39. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Daryl Bem
Halo effect
Ellen Langer
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
40. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Self-perception theory
Norman Triplett
Robbers' cave experiment
Reciprocity of disclosure
41. 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
Self-presentation
Compassionate love
Reciprocal socialization
Social loafing
42. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Illusory correlation
Henry Landsberger
Impression management
Conformity (types)
43. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Balance theory
Acceptance
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Barrier (life space)
44. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Bogus pipeline
Hazel Markus
Social Psychology
Equity theory
45. Person who speaks out against majority
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Dissenter
bystander effect
Social loafing
46. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Social facilitation
Oversimplification
Barrier (life space)
Stuart Valins
47. 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
Social facilitation
Sleeper effect
Self-presentation
Lee Ross
48. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Social Psychology
Walter Dill Scott
Attraction (in order of importance)
Field theory
49. 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)
Morton Deutsch
competition
Social exchange theory
diffusion of responsibility
50. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
False consensus bias
elaboration likelihood model
Base-rate fallacy
Trucking company game