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GRE Psychology: Social Psychology
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1. Prisoner'S dilemma - trucking company game to illustrate struggle between cooperation and competition
Hazel Markus
elaboration likelihood model
Morton Deutsch
Dissenter
2. 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
Just world bias
Social facilitation
Social exchange theory
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
3. Doll preference studies
Solomon Asch
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Norman Triplett
4. Berkowitz; there is a relationship between frustration in achieving a goal (no matter how small) and show aggression
elaboration likelihood model
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
M.J.Lerner
Reciprocity of disclosure
5. Humans interact in ways that maximize reward and minimize costs
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Frustration-aggression hypothesis
Social exchange theory
Norman Triplett
6. 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 -
Attitude
Hazel Markus
Kurt Lewin
Acceptance
7. Lewin; life space; pushes person in the direction of + valence - away from - valence
Irving Janis
Availability heuristic
Vector (life space)
Impression management
8. Constant exchange of influences between people - constant factor in our behaviour
Oversimplification
Objective self-awareness
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Reciprocal interaction
9. Studied environmental influences on behaviour; architecture matters. students in long-corridor dorms more stressed and withdrawn than those in suite-style
Stuart Valins
diffusion of responsibility
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Representativeness heuristic
10. 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)
Base-rate fallacy
Equity theory
diffusion of responsibility
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
11. With opposing party decreases conflict - we fear what we do not know`
Robbers' cave experiment
Contact (Groups)
Reciprocity of disclosure
Leonard Berkowitz
12. 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)
Fritz Heider
competition
Muzafer Sherif
Passionate love
13. Assuming 2 unrelated things are related
Solomon Asch
Robert Zajonc
Reciprocity of disclosure
Illusory correlation
14. Interpreting own actions and motives ina positive way - blaming situations for failures and taking credit for successes; think self as better than average
Acceptance
Leonard Berkowitz
Self-serving attributional bias
Excitation-transfer theory
15. Assuming most other people think as you do
Reciprocal socialization
Robbers' cave experiment
False consensus bias
Solomon Asch
16. Clark; demonstrated negative effects that group segregation had on African-American children'S self-esteem - they thought white dolls were better
Attribution theory
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
doll preference studies
Social exchange theory
17. The study of how people relate to and influence each other
Objective self-awareness
Group polarization
False consensus bias
Social Psychology
18. 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
Groupthink
Solomon Asch
Conformity (types)
Self-monitoring
19. Tendency for person doing the behaviour to have different perspective on situation than observer
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Walter Dill Scott
Reciprocal interaction
Passionate love
20. Logical fallacy; small - insignificant first step in one direction will lead to greater steps with a significant impact
Actor-observer attributional divergence
Reciprocity of disclosure
Philip Zimbardo
Slippery slope
21. Groups take greater risks than individuals
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Sleeper effect
Risky shift
Slippery slope
22. 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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23. Process by which people pay close attention to their actions - often change behaviours to be more favourable
Self-monitoring
Group polarization
Paul Ekman
Attitude
24. Nursing home residents with plants to care for have better health
Self-serving attributional bias
Ingroup/outgroup bias
Stimulus-overload theory
J. Rodin and E. Langer
25. Dislike(-) - like (+) - balance if 1 or 3 + - imbalance if 0 or 2 + - too simplistic - Balance exists when all 3 fit together harmoniously - when there sin'T balance - there will be stress - and a tendency to remove stress by achieving balance
Hindsight bias
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Irving Janis
26. 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
Lee Ross
Reciprocity of disclosure
Theory of reasoned action/planned behaviour
Walter Dill Scott
27. The Kitty Genovese care (murder witnessed by many people) - Why people are less likely to help when others are present
bystander effect
Risky shift
Robbers' cave experiment
Ellen Langer
28. Petty and Cacioppo; model of persuasion suggests those involved in an issue listen to strength of arguments rather than more superficial factors
Reciprocal socialization
Passionate love
elaboration likelihood model
Slippery slope
29. Experiment - people'S descriptions of the autokinetic effect were influenced by others' descriptions; also win/lose game-type competition can trigger conflict in groups - Robbers' cave experiment
Muzafer Sherif
Social support network
Reciprocal socialization
Elaine Hatfield
30. Illusion of control
Reciprocal interaction
McGuire
Ellen Langer
Contact (Groups)
31. Hawthorne effect
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Cognitive dissonance theory
Self-presentation
Henry Landsberger
32. When 2 parties adapt to or are socialized by each other (e.g. parents and children)
Ellen Langer
Objective self-awareness
Reciprocal interaction
Reciprocal socialization
33. 2 basic types of love: passionate love and compassionate love
Sociotechnical systems
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Elaine Hatfield
Dissenter
34. Heider; how people make feelings/actions consistent to preserve psychological homeostasis
Balance theory
M. Rokeach
Life space
Social comparison
35. How stimuli are rated - the more we see/experience something - the more positively we rate it
Self-perception theory
Henry Landsberger
Mere-exposure effect
Social support network
36. Conformity; change actions and beliefs to conform
Reciprocal socialization
Hawthorne effect
Hindsight bias
Acceptance
37. People are promoted at work until they reach a position of incompetence in which they remain
Reactance
Peter principle
Groupthink
Self-serving attributional bias
38. 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
Compliance
Attribution theory
Ellen Langer
39. Showed that we lack awareness for why we do what we do
Richard Nisbett
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Richard Lazarus
Availability heuristic
40. 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
Stimulus-overload theory
Harold Kelley
Social loafing
Paul Ekman
41. Most in a group privately disagree but incorrectly believe most in group agree
Equity theory
Vector (life space)
Pluralistic ignorance
Mere-exposure effect
42. Presence of others enhance or hinder performance
Field theory
Factors that a speaker has to most likely change a listener'S attitude
Increase in likelihood to conform (factors)
Social facilitation
43. Believing after the fact that you knew something all along
Sociotechnical systems
Compassionate love
Kaplan:Relationship betwen P - O and X
Hindsight bias
44. Behaving in ways that might make a good impression
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Impression management
Overjustification effect
Richard Lazarus
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
Representativeness heuristic
Reciprocal interaction
Cognitive dissonance theory
Stanley MIlgram (study)
46. Thinking if someone has a good quality then he has only good qualities
Trucking company game
Irving Janis
Halo effect
Acceptance
47. 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
Cognitive dissonance theory
Harold Kelley
Barrier (life space)
James Stoner
48. 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
Overjustification effect
Reciprocal socialization
Balance theory
49. Method of work design - acknowledges interaction between people and technology in the workplace
Sociotechnical systems
Prisoner'S dilemma
Social support network
Muzafer Sherif
50. Going along with real or perceived group pressure - compliance - acceptance
Elaine Hatfield
Conformity (types)
Groupthink
Irving Janis