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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Assuming most other people think as you do
Daryl Bem
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
False consensus bias
Pluralistic ignorance
2. 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
Irving Janis
M. Rokeach
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Self-serving attributional bias
3. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Reactance
Dissenter
Just world bias
Barrier (life space)
4. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Social facilitation
Social support network
doll preference studies
Role
5. 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
Availability heuristic
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Walter Dill Scott
James Stoner
6. 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)
Passionate love
Social support network
Morton Deutsch
Valence (life space)
7. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
elaboration likelihood model
Reciprocal socialization
Trucking company game
Robbers' cave experiment
8. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Sleeper effect
Solomon Asch
Life space
Reactance
9. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Social Psychology
doll preference studies
Prisoner'S dilemma
Attribution theory
10. 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
Richard Lazarus
Valence (life space)
Overjustification effect
11. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Richard Lazarus
Stuart Valins
Pluralistic ignorance
Balance theory
12. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Inoculation theory
Morton Deutsch
Oversimplification
Stanley MIlgram (study)
13. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Group polarization
Stuart Valins
Reactance
Balance theory
14. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Barrier (life space)
Impression management
Daryl Bem
Philip Zimbardo
15. 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
Self-serving attributional bias
Harold Kelley
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Just world bias
16. Self-perception theory
Reactance
Ellen Langer
Daryl Bem
Social comparison
17. Illusion of control
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Ellen Langer
Lee Ross
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
18. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Paul Ekman
Overjustification effect
Self-perception theory
19. Just world bias
Self-perception theory
M.J.Lerner
Attitude
Stimulus-overload theory
20. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Bogus pipeline
Halo effect
Compassionate love
Reciprocal socialization
21. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Self-serving attributional bias
Richard Nisbett
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Availability heuristic
22. 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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23. Attribution theory - balance theory
Stanley Milgram
Passionate love
Robert Zajonc
Fritz Heider
24. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
deindividuation
Just world bias
doll preference studies
Sunk cost
25. 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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26. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Inoculation theory
Mere-exposure effect
Social exchange theory
Attraction (in order of importance)
27. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Solomon Asch
deindividuation
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Equity theory
28. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Conformity (types)
Richard Lazarus
Daryl Bem
Sunk cost
29. 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
Paul Ekman
Muzafer Sherif
Social comparison
Objective self-awareness
30. 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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31. 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
Illusory correlation
Leonard Berkowitz
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Hawthorne effect
32. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Mere-exposure effect
Oversimplification
Paul Ekman
Door-in-the-face
33. The total influences upon individual behavior
Walter Dill Scott
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Self-perception theory
Field theory
34. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
Objective self-awareness
J. Rodin and E. Langer
bystander effect
Overjustification effect
35. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Valence (life space)
Balance theory
Pluralistic ignorance
Trucking company game
36. Ellen langer - Belief that you can control things that you actually have no influence on - The driving force behind manipulating the lottery - gambling and superstition
M.J.Lerner
Illusion of control
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Self-perception theory
37. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Walter Dill Scott
elaboration likelihood model
Trucking company game
38. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Oversimplification
Social Psychology
Peter principle
Contact (Groups)
39. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Base-rate fallacy
Just world bias
Slippery slope
40. 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
Henry Landsberger
Slippery slope
Solomon Asch
Representativeness heuristic
41. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
diffusion of responsibility
Attraction (in order of importance)
Dissenter
Illusory correlation
42. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Harold Kelley
Slippery slope
diffusion of responsibility
Base-rate fallacy
43. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
False consensus bias
diffusion of responsibility
Social loafing
Paul Ekman
44. 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)
Life space
McGuire
diffusion of responsibility
Role
45. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Illusion of control
Objective self-awareness
Bogus pipeline
Actor-observer attributional divergence
46. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Impression management
Reactance
Reciprocal socialization
Richard Lazarus
47. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Walter Dill Scott
Norman Triplett
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
48. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
McGuire
Reciprocity of disclosure
Solomon Asch
Compassionate love
49. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Walter Dill Scott
M. Rokeach
Social loafing
Attraction (in order of importance)
50. Doll preference studies
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Trucking company game
Walter Dill Scott