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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Illusion of control
Group polarization
Ellen Langer
Impression management
Irving Janis
2. 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
Ellen Langer
Group polarization
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Reciprocity of disclosure
3. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Risky shift
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Slippery slope
Social loafing
4. 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
Norman Triplett
Availability heuristic
Compassionate love
5. 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
Social loafing
Cognitive dissonance theory
Paul Ekman
Stuart Valins
6. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Paul Ekman
Compliance
Valence (life space)
Walter Dill Scott
7. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Robert Zajonc
Barrier (life space)
Field theory
Hawthorne effect
8. The total influences upon individual behavior
Illusory correlation
Slippery slope
Harold Kelley
Field theory
9. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Conformity (types)
Group polarization
Walter Dill Scott
Door-in-the-face
10. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Social Psychology
Reactance
Elaine Hatfield
Leonard Berkowitz
11. 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
Halo effect
bystander effect
Attraction (in order of importance)
Gain-loss theory
12. Elaboration likelihood model
Reciprocal socialization
Slippery slope
Balance theory
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
13. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Bogus pipeline
Cognitive dissonance theory
Equity theory
Reactance
14. 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
Solomon Asch
Sunk cost
Role
Robbers' cave experiment
15. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Social facilitation
Illusory correlation
Robert Zajonc
Inoculation theory
16. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
James Stoner
Social facilitation
Paul Ekman
doll preference studies
17. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Equity theory
Peter principle
Social exchange theory
Sleeper effect
18. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Group polarization
Self-monitoring
Illusion of control
Social loafing
19. 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
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Social Psychology
Sociotechnical systems
Stimulus-overload theory
20. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Door-in-the-face
Norman Triplett
Henry Landsberger
Halo effect
21. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Fritz Heider
elaboration likelihood model
Social facilitation
Compliance
22. Self-perception theory
Daryl Bem
Balance theory
Attraction (in order of importance)
Reciprocal interaction
23. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Norman Triplett
Illusion of control
doll preference studies
Overjustification effect
24. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Self-serving attributional bias
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Harold Kelley
Availability heuristic
25. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Leonard Berkowitz
Dissenter
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
26. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Dissenter
Compassionate love
Social support network
Trucking company game
27. Assuming most other people think as you do
Mere-exposure effect
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
bystander effect
False consensus bias
28. 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
Social comparison
Reciprocal socialization
Representativeness heuristic
McGuire
29. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Base-rate fallacy
Norman Triplett
Compassionate love
Slippery slope
30. 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
False consensus bias
Philip Zimbardo
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
deindividuation
31. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Peter principle
Attitude
Life space
Base-rate fallacy
32. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Sleeper effect
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Risky shift
Morton Deutsch
33. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Attribution theory
False consensus bias
Groupthink
bystander effect
34. 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
Prisoner'S dilemma
deindividuation
Solomon Asch
Slippery slope
35. 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
Gain-loss theory
Self-monitoring
Reciprocity of disclosure
Muzafer Sherif
36. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Contact (Groups)
Life space
Attribution theory
Attitude
37. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Hawthorne effect
Groupthink
McGuire
38. Group polarization
competition
Hindsight bias
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
James Stoner
39. 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
Hazel Markus
Life space
Stanley Milgram
Reciprocity of disclosure
40. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Social loafing
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Reactance
Reciprocity of disclosure
41. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Passionate love
Sociotechnical systems
Bogus pipeline
Illusory correlation
42. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Muzafer Sherif
Inoculation theory
Sleeper effect
Gain-loss theory
43. Those in a group think their members have more positive qualities and fewer negative than members in another group even if qualities are the same; basis for prejudice
Cognitive dissonance theory
Solomon Asch
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Leonard Berkowitz
44. 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
Bogus pipeline
Excitation-transfer theory
Sleeper effect
Harold Kelley
45. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
doll preference studies
Dissenter
Valence (life space)
Base-rate fallacy
46. 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
Objective self-awareness
Self-monitoring
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Conformity (types)
47. Continued Milgram'S study - --> deindividuated individuals more willing to administer higher levels of shock; --> prison simulation experiments found normal subjects could easily be transformed into sadistic prison guards; --> also found antisocial b
Social facilitation
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Stuart Valins
Philip Zimbardo
48. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
Hindsight bias
Overjustification effect
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Robbers' cave experiment
49. founder of social psychology -; - applied Gestalt ideas to social behaviour; - conceived field theory - life space - valence - vector - barrier
Kurt Lewin
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Hindsight bias
Leon Festinger
50. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Self-monitoring
Richard Nisbett
Hindsight bias
Conformity (types)