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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. 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
Availability heuristic
Philip Zimbardo
Paul Ekman
Equity theory
2. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Group polarization
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Inoculation theory
3. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Social loafing
Social facilitation
Slippery slope
Field theory
4. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Just world bias
Leon Festinger
Hindsight bias
Reactance
5. 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
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Valence (life space)
Robert Zajonc
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
6. Lewin; life space; + if person thinks region will reduce tension by meeting present needs - - if region with increase tension/ danger
Social Psychology
Reactance
Balance theory
Valence (life space)
7. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Paul Ekman
Representativeness heuristic
Equity theory
Halo effect
8. 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
Role
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
9. Assuming most other people think as you do
False consensus bias
Social comparison
Hindsight bias
Ellen Langer
10. Inoculation theory
Reciprocal socialization
McGuire
Prisoner'S dilemma
Self-presentation
11. Lewin; life space; block locomotion between regions of person and psychological environment
Reciprocity of disclosure
Ellen Langer
Barrier (life space)
False consensus bias
12. Tendency to work less hard in a group as a result of diffusion of responsibility; guarded against when each individual is closely monitored
Field theory
Hawthorne effect
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Social loafing
13. Elaboration likelihood model
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Social Psychology
Door-in-the-face
Stanley MIlgram (study)
14. 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
Illusory correlation
Door-in-the-face
Leon Festinger
deindividuation
15. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Social exchange theory
deindividuation
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Valence (life space)
16. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Inoculation theory
Leonard Berkowitz
Self-serving attributional bias
17. 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
Stimulus-overload theory
M. Rokeach
Fritz Heider
bystander effect
18. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Social exchange theory
Reciprocal interaction
Richard Lazarus
Walter Dill Scott
19. 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
Gain-loss theory
Valence (life space)
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Peter principle
20. 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)
Morton Deutsch
Overjustification effect
doll preference studies
diffusion of responsibility
21. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Acceptance
Cognitive dissonance theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
elaboration likelihood model
22. Doll preference studies
Leon Festinger
Self-serving attributional bias
Impression management
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
23. Group polarization
Cognitive dissonance theory
Attitude
Social exchange theory
James Stoner
24. Tendency to make simple explanations for complex events - people hold onto original ideas about cause even when new factors emerge
Oversimplification
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Self-perception theory
25. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Overjustification effect
Cognitive dissonance theory
Social support network
26. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Paul Ekman
Compassionate love
Hindsight bias
Leonard Berkowitz
27. Particularly positive self-presentation is influencial on behaviour - we act in ways that align with our attitudes or in ways that will be accepted by others; self-monitoring; impression management
Richard Lazarus
Self-presentation
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Mere-exposure effect
28. 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
Fritz Heider
Robbers' cave experiment
Availability heuristic
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
29. Sometimes attribute excitement or physiological arousal about one thing to something else (e.g. bungee jumping on first date)
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Objective self-awareness
Excitation-transfer theory
Pluralistic ignorance
30. 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
Daryl Bem
Stanley Milgram
Representativeness heuristic
Life space
31. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
Philip Zimbardo
Mere-exposure effect
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Fritz Heider
32. Cognitive dissonance theory
bystander effect
Elaine Hatfield
Leon Festinger
Self-fulfilling prophecy
33. Just world bias
Social comparison
M.J.Lerner
Pluralistic ignorance
Contact (Groups)
34. Person who speaks out against majority
Robbers' cave experiment
Acceptance
Door-in-the-face
Dissenter
35. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Social facilitation
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Reciprocal interaction
Vector (life space)
36. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Gain-loss theory
Role
Excitation-transfer theory
Morton Deutsch
37. Self-perception theory
Daryl Bem
Cognitive dissonance theory
Prisoner'S dilemma
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
38. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
doll preference studies
Acceptance
Social Psychology
Overjustification effect
39. Study how to increase worker productivity at Hawthorne Works - reported anything they did increased productivity; because performance changes when people are being observed
Hawthorne effect
Halo effect
Bogus pipeline
J. Rodin and E. Langer
40. 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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41. The total influences upon individual behavior
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Slippery slope
Passionate love
Field theory
42. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Reciprocity of disclosure
Self-serving attributional bias
Hazel Markus
Actor-observer attributional divergence
43. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Passionate love
Acceptance
Social exchange theory
Harold Kelley
44. 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
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Leonard Berkowitz
Reciprocal socialization
Illusion of control
45. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Mere-exposure effect
Compassionate love
Self-monitoring
Richard Nisbett
46. The affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined - achieved via mutual trust - respect - and commitment
Compassionate love
Groupthink
Hawthorne effect
M.J.Lerner
47. Doing a small favour makes people more willing to do larger ones later
doll preference studies
Field theory
Group polarization
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
48. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Cognitive dissonance theory
Peter principle
False consensus bias
Stuart Valins
49. 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
Gain-loss theory
Representativeness heuristic
McGuire
Social comparison
50. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Robert Zajonc
Richard Lazarus
McGuire
Vector (life space)
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