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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Sunk cost
competition
Just world bias
Barrier (life space)
2. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Compassionate love
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Oversimplification
Trucking company game
3. Attribution theory - balance theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Mere-exposure effect
Compassionate love
Fritz Heider
4. 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)
Mere-exposure effect
diffusion of responsibility
Equity theory
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
5. Evaluating one'S own actions - abilities - opinions - and ideas and comparing to others; - since others are generally familiar people (own social group) - used for argument against mainstreaming; --> when children with difficulties in classes with no
Trucking company game
Social comparison
Harold Kelley
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
6. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Social support network
Self-monitoring
Leonard Berkowitz
Field theory
7. 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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8. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Irving Janis
Kurt Lewin
Stuart Valins
Hazel Markus
9. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Paul Ekman
Base-rate fallacy
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Cognitive dissonance theory
10. 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
Solomon Asch
Groupthink
Cognitive dissonance theory
bystander effect
11. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Life space
Gain-loss theory
Social facilitation
J. Rodin and E. Langer
12. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Impression management
M. Rokeach
Muzafer Sherif
Illusion of control
13. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Social loafing
Overjustification effect
Balance theory
Life space
14. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Prisoner'S dilemma
Norman Triplett
Availability heuristic
Slippery slope
15. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Door-in-the-face
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Illusory correlation
doll preference studies
16. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Reactance
Reciprocity of disclosure
Equity theory
Illusion of control
17. Groupthink
Irving Janis
Compassionate love
Life space
Attitude
18. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Attitude
Impression management
Illusory correlation
Hindsight bias
19. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Richard Nisbett
Compassionate love
Attraction (in order of importance)
Ingroup/outgroup bias
20. 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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21. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Pluralistic ignorance
Leonard Berkowitz
Social exchange theory
22. Inoculation theory
Passionate love
McGuire
Prisoner'S dilemma
Reciprocal socialization
23. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Actor-observer attributional divergence
doll preference studies
Objective self-awareness
Leon Festinger
24. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Compliance
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Door-in-the-face
False consensus bias
25. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Group polarization
Slippery slope
26. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Elaine Hatfield
Balance theory
Equity theory
Hazel Markus
27. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Contact (Groups)
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Bogus pipeline
McGuire
28. 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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29. 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
Representativeness heuristic
Just world bias
Stimulus-overload theory
competition
30. 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
Compassionate love
Contact (Groups)
Muzafer Sherif
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
31. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Robbers' cave experiment
Stuart Valins
Self-fulfilling prophecy
32. 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)
Stuart Valins
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Richard Lazarus
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
33. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Halo effect
Field theory
Reactance
Social facilitation
34. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Sunk cost
Peter principle
elaboration likelihood model
Ingroup/outgroup bias
35. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Robert Zajonc
Compassionate love
Inoculation theory
Reciprocal socialization
36. 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
Just world bias
Compassionate love
Self-presentation
Philip Zimbardo
37. Theory of reasoned action
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Robbers' cave experiment
Slippery slope
Halo effect
38. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Groupthink
Sunk cost
Morton Deutsch
39. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Social loafing
Base-rate fallacy
diffusion of responsibility
Reciprocal interaction
40. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
James Stoner
bystander effect
Trucking company game
Richard Lazarus
41. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Sleeper effect
Excitation-transfer theory
Social comparison
Daryl Bem
42. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Representativeness heuristic
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Self-monitoring
43. 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
Robert Zajonc
Representativeness heuristic
Objective self-awareness
Solomon Asch
44. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Self-perception theory
bystander effect
Social Psychology
Barrier (life space)
45. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
bystander effect
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Base-rate fallacy
46. 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
Muzafer Sherif
Excitation-transfer theory
Trucking company game
Attribution theory
47. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Just world bias
Stimulus-overload theory
Social loafing
Harold Kelley
48. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Paul Ekman
Leonard Berkowitz
Muzafer Sherif
Groupthink
49. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Solomon Asch
Robert Zajonc
Social facilitation
50. Cognitive dissonance theory
Trucking company game
Philip Zimbardo
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Leon Festinger