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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
McGuire
Morton Deutsch
Paul Ekman
Acceptance
2. People who are near us (propinquity) -physically attractive - attitudes similar to our own - like us back (reciprocity); opposites do not attract
Door-in-the-face
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Attraction (in order of importance)
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
3. An instrument that measures physiological reactions in order to measure truthfulness of attitude self-reporting
Kurt Lewin
Walter Dill Scott
Bogus pipeline
Slippery slope
4. The attributions we make about our actions or those of others usually accurate; we base this on consistency - distinctiveness - and consensus of the action
Self-presentation
Walter Dill Scott
Harold Kelley
Passionate love
5. 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
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Passionate love
Walter Dill Scott
Bogus pipeline
6. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Social Psychology
Compassionate love
Henry Landsberger
Fritz Heider
7. 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 -
Availability heuristic
Hazel Markus
Equity theory
Social facilitation
8. Just world bias
bystander effect
M.J.Lerner
Reciprocity of disclosure
elaboration likelihood model
9. When one'S expectations draw out (in a way - cause) the expected behaviour
McGuire
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Valence (life space)
Robert Zajonc
10. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Elaine Hatfield
bystander effect
11. Hawthorne effect
deindividuation
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Overjustification effect
Henry Landsberger
12. Presence of others helps with easy tasks but hinders complex tasks
Robert Zajonc
Door-in-the-face
Lee Ross
elaboration likelihood model
13. Follows from self-perception theory; tendency to assume we must not want to do things we are paid or compensated to do
Overjustification effect
Henry Landsberger
Passionate love
Self-presentation
14. 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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15. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Kurt Lewin
bystander effect
16. 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
elaboration likelihood model
Inoculation theory
Peter principle
17. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
bystander effect
Ellen Langer
Leonard Berkowitz
Irving Janis
18. Area of study that combines social and clinical ideas - for mental health
Social support network
Inoculation theory
Excitation-transfer theory
Muzafer Sherif
19. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Norman Triplett
Risky shift
Reactance
20. Overestimating the general frequency of things we are most familiar with
Base-rate fallacy
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Leon Festinger
Objective self-awareness
21. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Harold Kelley
Self-monitoring
Norman Triplett
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
Pluralistic ignorance
Conformity (types)
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
23. Using shortcut about typical assumptions rather than relying on logic; basis of stereotypes- 6 feet tall beautiful women --> we think she'S more likely to be a model than lawyer
Representativeness heuristic
Reactance
Hawthorne effect
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
24. Group polarization
diffusion of responsibility
Irving Janis
Risky shift
James Stoner
25. Person who speaks out against majority
Balance theory
Stimulus-overload theory
Prisoner'S dilemma
Dissenter
26. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Vector (life space)
Compassionate love
Contact (Groups)
Overjustification effect
27. Illusion of control
Acceptance
James Stoner
Ellen Langer
M. Rokeach
28. People most comfortable in situations which rewards and punishments are equal - fitting - or logical; - overbenefited people feel guilt - random/ illogical punishments create anxiety
Inoculation theory
Mere-exposure effect
Overjustification effect
Equity theory
29. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Stuart Valins
Passionate love
Mere-exposure effect
Social comparison
30. Lewin; collection of forces (valence - vector - barrier) on the individual - field of perception and action
Acceptance
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Life space
Attribution theory
31. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Walter Dill Scott
Sociotechnical systems
Reciprocal socialization
elaboration likelihood model
32. Doll preference studies
doll preference studies
Compassionate love
Richard Lazarus
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
33. Conformity; go along publicly but not privately
elaboration likelihood model
Trucking company game
doll preference studies
Compliance
34. Competition for scare resources usually causes conflict in a group - Sherif'S Robber'S cave experiment
competition
Social comparison
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
M.J.Lerner
35. Assuming most other people think as you do
Mere-exposure effect
Self-perception theory
Lee Ross
False consensus bias
36. 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)
Conformity (types)
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
doll preference studies
Reciprocal interaction
37. Refusal to conform - may occur as result of blatant attempt to control; will not conform if forewarned that others will try to change them
Contact (Groups)
Role
Social facilitation
Reactance
38. 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
Compassionate love
Leon Festinger
James Stoner
Self-presentation
39. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Illusory correlation
Sleeper effect
Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
Philip Zimbardo
40. 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
Compassionate love
M. Fischbein and I. Ajzen
Objective self-awareness
Actor-observer attributional divergence
41. Stoner; group discussion generally serves to strengthen the already dominant point of view; explains risky shift
Group polarization
Cognitive dissonance theory
Self-presentation
Passionate love
42. 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
Attribution theory
Trucking company game
R.E. Petty and J.T. Cacioppo
Social Psychology
43. 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)
Irving Janis
Philip Zimbardo
Henry Landsberger
Passionate love
44. Sharing secrets/feelings facilitates emotional closeness
Solomon Asch
Reciprocity of disclosure
Oversimplification
Just world bias
45. Studied stres sand coping - - differentiated between problem-focused coping (changing stressor) and emotion-focused coping (changing response)
Philip Zimbardo
Richard Lazarus
Reactance
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
46. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Compassionate love
Sunk cost
Halo effect
Reciprocity of disclosure
47. 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
Social facilitation
Philip Zimbardo
Reciprocity of disclosure
48. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Life space
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Reciprocal socialization
Kurt Lewin
49. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Elaine Hatfield
Leonard Berkowitz
Stimulus-overload theory
50. 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
Hazel Markus
Fritz Heider
Muzafer Sherif
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