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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Cognitive dissonance theory
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Illusory correlation
Valence (life space)
Leon Festinger
2. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
Door-in-the-face
Hindsight bias
Bogus pipeline
J. Rodin and E. Langer
3. 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
Social support network
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
elaboration likelihood model
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
4. 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
Paul Ekman
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Kurt Lewin
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
5. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Hindsight bias
Impression management
Availability heuristic
6. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Self-presentation
Robbers' cave experiment
Leonard Berkowitz
bystander effect
7. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Bogus pipeline
Self-monitoring
Stuart Valins
Prisoner'S dilemma
8. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Pluralistic ignorance
Illusory correlation
Life space
Mere-exposure effect
9. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
diffusion of responsibility
Reactance
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Muzafer Sherif
10. 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
Compassionate love
doll preference studies
Self-monitoring
Gain-loss theory
11. 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
doll preference studies
Social support network
Excitation-transfer theory
Objective self-awareness
12. 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)
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Barrier (life space)
Sleeper effect
Kurt Lewin
13. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Just world bias
Self-serving attributional bias
Compassionate love
M.J.Lerner
14. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Vector (life space)
Illusory correlation
Paul Ekman
Valence (life space)
15. A positive - negative or neutral evaluation of a person - issue or object
Conformity (types)
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Attitude
Muzafer Sherif
16. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Illusory correlation
Equity theory
Self-monitoring
Compassionate love
17. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Sunk cost
Self-serving attributional bias
Muzafer Sherif
Oversimplification
18. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Philip Zimbardo
Illusion of control
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Groupthink
19. 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
Oversimplification
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Illusory correlation
Lee Ross
20. Inoculation theory
Vector (life space)
McGuire
Barrier (life space)
Fritz Heider
21. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
Reactance
Door-in-the-face
competition
Field theory
22. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Barrier (life space)
Stanley Milgram
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Stanley MIlgram (study)
23. Attribution theory - balance theory
Social facilitation
Oversimplification
Fritz Heider
McGuire
24. 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
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Pluralistic ignorance
Sleeper effect
Attribution theory
25. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Reciprocity of disclosure
Valence (life space)
Compliance
26. Doll preference studies
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Availability heuristic
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
27. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Slippery slope
Mere-exposure effect
Availability heuristic
Contact (Groups)
28. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Harold Kelley
Objective self-awareness
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Dissenter
29. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Social exchange theory
Valence (life space)
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Overjustification effect
30. 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
Kurt Lewin
Just world bias
Hawthorne effect
Richard Nisbett
31. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Reactance
Stanley Milgram
Slippery slope
Mere-exposure effect
32. 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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33. Beliefs are more vulnerable if never faced challenge
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Inoculation theory
Trucking company game
Henry Landsberger
34. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Halo effect
Illusion of control
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Stuart Valins
35. 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
Hindsight bias
Cognitive dissonance theory
Robert Zajonc
Leon Festinger
36. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Availability heuristic
Self-monitoring
bystander effect
Illusory correlation
37. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
M.J.Lerner
Role
Objective self-awareness
Contact (Groups)
38. Self-perception theory
Harold Kelley
Daryl Bem
Groupthink
Reactance
39. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Passionate love
Peter principle
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Prisoner'S dilemma
40. Person who speaks out against majority
Objective self-awareness
Group polarization
Dissenter
Stanley Milgram
41. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Overjustification effect
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Self-fulfilling prophecy
McGuire
42. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
diffusion of responsibility
Halo effect
Vector (life space)
43. 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
Sunk cost
Conformity (types)
Reactance
Self-fulfilling prophecy
44. 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
Trucking company game
McGuire
Overjustification effect
Walter Dill Scott
45. 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
Stanley MIlgram (study)
Paul Ekman
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
bystander effect
46. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Excitation-transfer theory
Peter principle
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Availability heuristic
47. The total influences upon individual behavior
Stimulus-overload theory
Social loafing
M. Rokeach
Field theory
48. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Objective self-awareness
Social facilitation
Halo effect
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
49. 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
James Stoner
Groupthink
False consensus bias
Reactance
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
Barrier (life space)
Attribution theory
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Reciprocity of disclosure