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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Slippery slope
Leonard Berkowitz
Objective self-awareness
2. Illusion of control
Social facilitation
Ellen Langer
Walter Dill Scott
Mere-exposure effect
3. 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)
Social loafing
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
diffusion of responsibility
Hazel Markus
4. 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
Compassionate love
Sociotechnical systems
M.J.Lerner
5. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Life space
diffusion of responsibility
Trucking company game
Richard Lazarus
6. 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
Role
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Solomon Asch
Compliance
7. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Overjustification effect
Mere-exposure effect
Impression management
Equity theory
8. 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
elaboration likelihood model
bystander effect
Hawthorne effect
Solomon Asch
9. 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)
Social facilitation
Passionate love
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Mere-exposure effect
10. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Social support network
Lee Ross
Solomon Asch
Excitation-transfer theory
11. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Base-rate fallacy
Role
Attitude
Paul Ekman
12. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Impression management
Ellen Langer
Social facilitation
Representativeness heuristic
13. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Risky shift
Conformity (types)
Compliance
Valence (life space)
14. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Stanley Milgram
Reciprocity of disclosure
Halo effect
elaboration likelihood model
15. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Door-in-the-face
Risky shift
Reciprocal interaction
competition
16. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Morton Deutsch
Impression management
Norman Triplett
Door-in-the-face
17. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Balance theory
Base-rate fallacy
Harold Kelley
False consensus bias
18. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Bogus pipeline
Reciprocal socialization
Group polarization
Peter principle
19. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Valence (life space)
elaboration likelihood model
Halo effect
Social exchange theory
20. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Hazel Markus
Vector (life space)
Social loafing
Barrier (life space)
21. 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
M. Rokeach
Balance theory
Overjustification effect
Peter principle
22. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Life space
Henry Landsberger
bystander effect
Inoculation theory
23. 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
Hindsight bias
Stanley Milgram
Acceptance
Stimulus-overload theory
24. 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
Risky shift
Group polarization
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Paul Ekman
25. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Objective self-awareness
Life space
Compliance
26. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Reactance
Overjustification effect
Hindsight bias
Harold Kelley
27. 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
Stanley Milgram
Ellen Langer
Availability heuristic
Excitation-transfer theory
28. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Impression management
Attitude
Richard Lazarus
Prisoner'S dilemma
29. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
diffusion of responsibility
McGuire
Walter Dill Scott
Vector (life space)
30. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Stanley Milgram
Richard Lazarus
Social loafing
Base-rate fallacy
31. 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
Just world bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Compliance
Slippery slope
32. Groupthink
Social Psychology
Irving Janis
Representativeness heuristic
Hazel Markus
33. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Richard Nisbett
Group polarization
Peter principle
Hawthorne effect
34. 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
Stuart Valins
Ellen Langer
Groupthink
Illusory correlation
35. Doll preference studies
Illusion of control
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Impression management
Stanley Milgram
36. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Life space
Stanley Milgram
Leon Festinger
Reciprocal socialization
37. The total influences upon individual behavior
Irving Janis
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Stanley Milgram
Field theory
38. Groups take greater risks than individuals
M.J.Lerner
Attribution theory
Valence (life space)
Risky shift
39. Elaboration likelihood model
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Attraction (in order of importance)
Illusion of control
Robert Zajonc
40. Cognitive dissonance theory
Oversimplification
Stanley Milgram
Leon Festinger
bystander effect
41. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Self-monitoring
Sleeper effect
Fritz Heider
M. Rokeach
42. Inoculation theory
Valence (life space)
Balance theory
McGuire
Lee Ross
43. 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
Illusion of control
Self-serving attributional bias
Sleeper effect
Hindsight bias
44. People act in order to obtain gain and avoid loss; people favour situations that start out negative and end positive - even compared to completely positive situations
Gain-loss theory
Inoculation theory
Reactance
Acceptance
45. 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
Balance theory
Availability heuristic
Kurt Lewin
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
46. 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
Morton Deutsch
Social loafing
Illusory correlation
Muzafer Sherif
47. Just world bias
Prisoner'S dilemma
Gain-loss theory
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
M.J.Lerner
48. 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
Slippery slope
Stanley Milgram
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Sociotechnical systems
49. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Role
Social facilitation
M. Rokeach
Passionate love
50. 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
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Base-rate fallacy
Risky shift
Attribution theory