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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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)
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Bogus pipeline
Passionate love
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
2. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Sleeper effect
Social loafing
Stuart Valins
Vector (life space)
3. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Sunk cost
Halo effect
Dissenter
4. 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
Oversimplification
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Barrier (life space)
5. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Attitude
Self-serving attributional bias
Conformity (types)
Norman Triplett
6. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Hindsight bias
Attribution theory
Inoculation theory
Social facilitation
7. 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
Availability heuristic
Paul Ekman
Valence (life space)
Philip Zimbardo
8. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Door-in-the-face
Group polarization
Overjustification effect
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
9. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Objective self-awareness
Slippery slope
Door-in-the-face
Leon Festinger
10. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Base-rate fallacy
Kurt Lewin
M. Rokeach
Social exchange theory
11. 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
Self-monitoring
Illusion of control
deindividuation
Sunk cost
12. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice
Just world bias
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Ingroup/outgroup bias
diffusion of responsibility
13. Theory of reasoned action
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Attraction (in order of importance)
Inoculation theory
Harold Kelley
14. Self-perception theory
Leon Festinger
Daryl Bem
Lee Ross
Bogus pipeline
15. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
elaboration likelihood model
Paul Ekman
Stanley Milgram
Kurt Lewin
16. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Social facilitation
Risky shift
Field theory
Self-presentation
17. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Overjustification effect
Cognitive dissonance theory
Illusion of control
18. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Barrier (life space)
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
M. Rokeach
Robbers' cave experiment
19. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Halo effect
Richard Lazarus
Compliance
Norman Triplett
20. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Pluralistic ignorance
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Walter Dill Scott
Sociotechnical systems
21. Persuasive communication from a source of low credibility may become more acceptable later; perhaps memory+discounting cue is severed over time - later recalling a source is less available - or differential decay: impact of cue decays faster than mes
Henry Landsberger
Sleeper effect
Group polarization
Reciprocal socialization
22. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Barrier (life space)
Paul Ekman
Peter principle
Social support network
23. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Social Psychology
Acceptance
Lee Ross
Valence (life space)
24. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Gain-loss theory
Attitude
Morton Deutsch
Reactance
25. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Field theory
Social support network
Role
diffusion of responsibility
26. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Henry Landsberger
Door-in-the-face
Social facilitation
deindividuation
27. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Self-perception theory
Paul Ekman
Richard Lazarus
Excitation-transfer theory
28. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Henry Landsberger
Walter Dill Scott
Mere-exposure effect
29. 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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30. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Stuart Valins
Dissenter
Self-serving attributional bias
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
31. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Groupthink
Lee Ross
Representativeness heuristic
Inoculation theory
32. 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
Social loafing
Gain-loss theory
Self-perception theory
Solomon Asch
33. 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
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Just world bias
Lee Ross
False consensus bias
34. Illusion of control
Social exchange theory
Vector (life space)
Life space
Ellen Langer
35. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Cognitive dissonance theory
Attribution theory
Harold Kelley
Self-monitoring
36. Experiment - people'S descriptions of the autokinetic effect were influenced by others' descriptions; also win/lose game-type competition can trigger conflict in groups - Robbers' cave experiment
Field theory
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Muzafer Sherif
Pluralistic ignorance
37. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Trucking company game
Attraction (in order of importance)
Objective self-awareness
38. Fischbein and Ajzen; people'S behaviour in a given situation is determined by attitude about situation and social norms; perceived behavioural control - attitude toward behaviour - behavioural intentions - subjective social norms; grounded in various
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Philip Zimbardo
Fritz Heider
Self-serving attributional bias
39. Groupthink
Inoculation theory
Pluralistic ignorance
Irving Janis
Leonard Berkowitz
40. 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
Hawthorne effect
Philip Zimbardo
Self-presentation
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
41. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Groupthink
Social Psychology
Leon Festinger
42. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Compassionate love
Robbers' cave experiment
Richard Lazarus
Actor-observer attributional divergence
43. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Self-presentation
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Representativeness heuristic
False consensus bias
44. The total influences upon individual behavior
Barrier (life space)
Field theory
Self-presentation
Leon Festinger
45. Group polarization
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
James Stoner
Social Psychology
Solomon Asch
46. 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
Slippery slope
Social facilitation
Groupthink
Solomon Asch
47. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Compassionate love
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Ellen Langer
Reciprocity of disclosure
48. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Reactance
Dissenter
Impression management
Philip Zimbardo
49. Person who speaks out against majority
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Social exchange theory
Objective self-awareness
Dissenter
50. Attribution theory - balance theory
Social Psychology
Mere-exposure effect
Fritz Heider
Reactance