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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Barrier (life space)
Group polarization
Risky shift
Illusion of control
2. Hawthorne effect
deindividuation
Vector (life space)
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Henry Landsberger
3. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
deindividuation
Overjustification effect
James Stoner
4. 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)
Objective self-awareness
Robbers' cave experiment
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Elaine Hatfield
5. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Dissenter
Barrier (life space)
Richard Lazarus
Social facilitation
6. Person who speaks out against majority
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Social exchange theory
Dissenter
Sleeper effect
7. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Barrier (life space)
Reactance
Morton Deutsch
Robert Zajonc
8. 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
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Muzafer Sherif
Acceptance
Attitude
9. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Social support network
Compliance
Irving Janis
competition
10. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Social comparison
Leonard Berkowitz
Barrier (life space)
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
11. 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
Sleeper effect
deindividuation
Harold Kelley
Objective self-awareness
12. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Group polarization
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Norman Triplett
13. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Excitation-transfer theory
Fritz Heider
Halo effect
Peter principle
14. 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)
Attraction (in order of importance)
Solomon Asch
Daryl Bem
diffusion of responsibility
15. Festinger; it is uncomfortable for people to have beliefs that do not match actions; people are motivated to back actions up by changing beliefs; the less act is justified by circumstance - the more we feel need to justify it by aligning attitude wit
Just world bias
Reciprocal socialization
Compliance
Cognitive dissonance theory
16. 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
Stanley Milgram
Just world bias
Fritz Heider
Kurt Lewin
17. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Barrier (life space)
Risky shift
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
competition
18. 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
Slippery slope
Vector (life space)
Sleeper effect
19. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Objective self-awareness
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Social Psychology
20. Bem; alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance; - when people are unsure of beliefs - they take cues from own behaviour (rather than aligning beliefs to match actions) - $1000 to work on Saturday
Reciprocal socialization
Hazel Markus
Base-rate fallacy
Self-perception theory
21. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
doll preference studies
Base-rate fallacy
Social support network
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
22. Groupthink
Irving Janis
Compliance
Solomon Asch
Social Psychology
23. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Excitation-transfer theory
Leon Festinger
Compassionate love
Kurt Lewin
24. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Illusory correlation
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Muzafer Sherif
25. 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
Availability heuristic
Fritz Heider
Robbers' cave experiment
Sociotechnical systems
26. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Attraction (in order of importance)
Contact (Groups)
Acceptance
Dissenter
27. 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
Risky shift
Attribution theory
Role
Contact (Groups)
28. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Field theory
Gain-loss theory
Oversimplification
Social support network
29. First official social psychology experiment on social facilitation; cyclists performed better when paced by others
Norman Triplett
Trucking company game
Attribution theory
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
30. 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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31. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Excitation-transfer theory
Bogus pipeline
Ellen Langer
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
32. Set of behaviour norms that seem suitable for a person
Self-serving attributional bias
Role
doll preference studies
Muzafer Sherif
33. Self-perception theory
Social exchange theory
Fritz Heider
Daryl Bem
competition
34. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Leonard Berkowitz
Mere-exposure effect
Self-monitoring
Kurt Lewin
35. 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
Excitation-transfer theory
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Solomon Asch
Ingroup/outgroup bias
36. 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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37. 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
Base-rate fallacy
Bogus pipeline
Availability heuristic
Sunk cost
38. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Sleeper effect
doll preference studies
Attribution theory
Reciprocity of disclosure
39. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Self-presentation
Leonard Berkowitz
40. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Social loafing
Inoculation theory
Norman Triplett
Elaine Hatfield
41. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Risky shift
Hawthorne effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Attribution theory
42. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Mere-exposure effect
Peter principle
Self-presentation
Social exchange theory
43. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Sleeper effect
diffusion of responsibility
Self-fulfilling prophecy
44. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Reciprocal socialization
Valence (life space)
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Attraction (in order of importance)
45. 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 -
Robbers' cave experiment
Stanley Milgram
Hazel Markus
Self-monitoring
46. Illusion of control
Reciprocity of disclosure
Life space
Self-serving attributional bias
Ellen Langer
47. 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
Base-rate fallacy
Self-serving attributional bias
Henry Landsberger
Stanley Milgram
48. 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
Solomon Asch
M. Rokeach
Reciprocal socialization
Dissenter
49. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
deindividuation
Attitude
Reciprocal interaction
50. Just world bias
M.J.Lerner
Compliance
Groupthink
Self-serving attributional bias
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