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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Compliance
Barrier (life space)
Balance theory
Reciprocal interaction
2. 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
Halo effect
Availability heuristic
Reciprocity of disclosure
Richard Nisbett
3. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Social exchange theory
Richard Lazarus
Illusory correlation
Vector (life space)
4. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
Ingroup/outgroup bias
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Bogus pipeline
Objective self-awareness
5. 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
Self-monitoring
Mere-exposure effect
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Sleeper effect
6. 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
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Walter Dill Scott
Cognitive dissonance theory
Attribution theory
7. Groupthink
Irving Janis
Ellen Langer
Dissenter
Role
8. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Representativeness heuristic
Groupthink
Solomon Asch
Norman Triplett
9. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
elaboration likelihood model
Kurt Lewin
Vector (life space)
Morton Deutsch
10. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Availability heuristic
Objective self-awareness
Acceptance
Richard Lazarus
11. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Excitation-transfer theory
Sleeper effect
Kurt Lewin
12. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Robert Zajonc
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Life space
Mere-exposure effect
13. 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
Vector (life space)
Hazel Markus
Daryl Bem
Illusion of control
14. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Reactance
Trucking company game
Role
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
15. 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)
Reciprocal interaction
Role
Stimulus-overload theory
Passionate love
16. Assuming most other people think as you do
bystander effect
False consensus bias
Just world bias
Fritz Heider
17. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Stuart Valins
Reciprocal socialization
Henry Landsberger
18. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Trucking company game
False consensus bias
Life space
M. Rokeach
19. Cross-cultural research; Eastern countries value interdependence over independence; for example - in Japan - individuals likelier to demonstrate conformity - modesty - and pessimism; where in the U.S. - likelier to show optimism - self-enhancement -
Bogus pipeline
Social facilitation
Hazel Markus
Walter Dill Scott
20. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Inoculation theory
Slippery slope
Social facilitation
Attitude
21. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Harold Kelley
Illusory correlation
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Reciprocity of disclosure
22. 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
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Representativeness heuristic
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Sleeper effect
23. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Robert Zajonc
Halo effect
Conformity (types)
Self-monitoring
24. 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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25. 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
Morton Deutsch
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Door-in-the-face
M. Rokeach
26. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Paul Ekman
Mere-exposure effect
Reciprocal socialization
27. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Stuart Valins
Ingroup/outgroup bias
bystander effect
Oversimplification
28. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Vector (life space)
Reciprocal interaction
M. Rokeach
Morton Deutsch
29. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Self-monitoring
Hawthorne effect
Equity theory
elaboration likelihood model
30. Group polarization
Irving Janis
Inoculation theory
James Stoner
Ellen Langer
31. 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
Field theory
Norman Triplett
Impression management
Representativeness heuristic
32. 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
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
M. Rokeach
Stimulus-overload theory
Attitude
33. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Overjustification effect
Attitude
Mere-exposure effect
34. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Illusory correlation
James Stoner
Overjustification effect
Stimulus-overload theory
35. Illusion of control
Self-perception theory
Compassionate love
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Ellen Langer
36. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Barrier (life space)
Harold Kelley
Acceptance
Oversimplification
37. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
competition
Self-presentation
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Social loafing
38. Self-perception theory
Walter Dill Scott
Daryl Bem
Self-serving attributional bias
Morton Deutsch
39. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Conformity (types)
Groupthink
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Walter Dill Scott
40. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Peter principle
Representativeness heuristic
Pluralistic ignorance
Bogus pipeline
41. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Impression management
Acceptance
Barrier (life space)
Reciprocity of disclosure
42. 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
Slippery slope
Sociotechnical systems
Elaine Hatfield
Social comparison
43. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Harold Kelley
Compassionate love
Reciprocal interaction
Self-presentation
44. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Reciprocity of disclosure
Prisoner'S dilemma
Overjustification effect
Attraction (in order of importance)
45. 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
Reciprocity of disclosure
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Social Psychology
46. The total influences upon individual behavior
Cognitive dissonance theory
Dissenter
Bogus pipeline
Field theory
47. 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
Paul Ekman
Dissenter
Life space
elaboration likelihood model
48. Cognitive dissonance theory
Lee Ross
Impression management
Leon Festinger
Hazel Markus
49. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Norman Triplett
Inoculation theory
James Stoner
Slippery slope
50. Hawthorne effect
Equity theory
Henry Landsberger
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Pluralistic ignorance