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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Inoculation theory
Illusion of control
Conformity (types)
Sleeper effect
2. 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
Compliance
M. Rokeach
deindividuation
diffusion of responsibility
3. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Role
Prisoner'S dilemma
bystander effect
Reciprocity of disclosure
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)
Lee Ross
diffusion of responsibility
Representativeness heuristic
Self-perception theory
5. Group polarization
Conformity (types)
Hawthorne effect
James Stoner
M.J.Lerner
6. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Impression management
Kurt Lewin
Reactance
Social loafing
7. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Overjustification effect
Hindsight bias
Social Psychology
McGuire
8. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Halo effect
Norman Triplett
Philip Zimbardo
9. Sales tactic - persuader ask for more than they would ever get and then 'Settle' for less
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Social support network
Door-in-the-face
Cognitive dissonance theory
10. 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
Compassionate love
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Harold Kelley
Door-in-the-face
11. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
McGuire
Representativeness heuristic
J. Rodin and E. Langer
Pluralistic ignorance
12. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Cognitive dissonance theory
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Compassionate love
Valence (life space)
13. 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
Leonard Berkowitz
Objective self-awareness
Social facilitation
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
14. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Lee Ross
Hazel Markus
competition
Compliance
15. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Kurt Lewin
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Richard Nisbett
Leonard Berkowitz
16. 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
Mere-exposure effect
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Social exchange theory
17. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Compassionate love
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Richard Lazarus
18. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Oversimplification
Slippery slope
Cognitive dissonance theory
Field theory
19. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Henry Landsberger
Leon Festinger
Stuart Valins
Attraction (in order of importance)
20. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Illusory correlation
Mere-exposure effect
Balance theory
21. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Social loafing
Conformity (types)
Reactance
Paul Ekman
22. 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
Halo effect
Reciprocal socialization
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Hawthorne effect
23. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Excitation-transfer theory
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Solomon Asch
24. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Mere-exposure effect
diffusion of responsibility
Hindsight bias
25. 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
Attribution theory
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Hazel Markus
Hawthorne effect
26. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
doll preference studies
Stuart Valins
Richard Lazarus
Oversimplification
27. Person who speaks out against majority
Social comparison
Dissenter
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Halo effect
28. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Norman Triplett
Door-in-the-face
Sociotechnical systems
Reciprocal interaction
29. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
Attribution theory
Norman Triplett
Peter principle
Compliance
30. 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
Trucking company game
Prisoner'S dilemma
Social loafing
Paul Ekman
31. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Group polarization
Solomon Asch
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Actor-observer attributional divergence
32. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Contact (Groups)
Illusion of control
Self-serving attributional bias
Equity theory
33. 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
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
M. Rokeach
Henry Landsberger
Stimulus-overload theory
34. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
bystander effect
Hazel Markus
Halo effect
Base-rate fallacy
35. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Stuart Valins
Barrier (life space)
Stimulus-overload theory
Acceptance
36. 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
Balance theory
Robert Zajonc
Reactance
Gain-loss theory
37. 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
Attitude
Paul Ekman
Slippery slope
Just world bias
38. 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)
Dissenter
Halo effect
Passionate love
Robbers' cave experiment
39. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Stanley Milgram
Reciprocal interaction
Stimulus-overload theory
Hindsight bias
40. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Impression management
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Objective self-awareness
Trucking company game
41. Studied subjects who were first made to believe a state and then later told it was false. subjects continued to believe the state if they had processed it and devised their own logical explanation for it
Lee Ross
Compliance
Sleeper effect
Walter Dill Scott
42. 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
Availability heuristic
Social support network
Self-presentation
43. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Social exchange theory
Mere-exposure effect
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Fritz Heider
44. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Base-rate fallacy
Kurt Lewin
Acceptance
elaboration likelihood model
45. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Group polarization
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Prisoner'S dilemma
Self-presentation
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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)
Fritz Heider
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Stuart Valins
Richard Nisbett
49. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Slippery slope
Conformity (types)
Contact (Groups)
Hazel Markus
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
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Attribution theory
Hawthorne effect
Stanley Milgram