Test your basic knowledge |

GRE Psychology: Social Psychology

Subjects : gre, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness






2. Assuming most other people think as you do






3. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health






4. The total influences upon individual behavior






5. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object






6. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression






7. 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






8. The study of how people relate to and influence each other






9. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform






10. 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






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






12. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health






13. Milgram; explains why urbanities are less prosocial than country people; they do not need any more interaction; e.g. emergency situations familiar to city people - novelty for town people will attract attention and help






14. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift






15. 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






16. Groupthink






17. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better






18. 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






19. 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






20. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related






21. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour






22. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later






23. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour






24. 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)






25. Frustration-aggression hypothesis






26. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment






27. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier






28. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge






29. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately






30. 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






31. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract






32. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person






33. Expense incurred and cannot be recovered; because money already spent is irrelevant to the future - best to ignore these when making decisions but we often do not






34. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others






35. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain






36. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed






37. 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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


38. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression






39. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance






40. Illusion of control






41. Group polarization






42. 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






43. Hawthorne effect






44. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






48. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)






49. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along






50. Elaboration likelihood model