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Social Psyc
Kaplan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aronson, E. & Linda, D. | Proposed Gain-loss principle (an evaluation that changes will have more effect than an evaluation that remains constant) |
| Norman Triplett | Fist SP study |
| Asch, S. | Studied conformity by asking subjects to compare the lengths of lines |
| Bem, Deryl | Developed Self-perception theory as an alternative to cognitive dissonance theory-people infer what their attitudes are based on their behaivors |
| Clark, K. & Clark, M. | Performed study on doll preferenes in African Am children; the results were used in the 1954 Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Edu Supreme Court Case |
| Darley, J. & Latane, B. | Proposed that there were two factors that could lead to non helping: social influence & diffusion of responsibility |
| Eagly, A. | Suggested that gender differences in conformity were not due to gender, per se, but to differing social roles |
| Festinger, Leon | Developed cognitive dissonance theory; also developed social comparison theory. W/ Carlsmith, spoon experiment-Minimal Justification Effect |
| Hall, E. | Studied norms for interpersonal distance in interpersonal interactions |
| Heider, Fritz | Developed balance theory to explain why attitudes change; also developed attribution theory and divided attributions into 2 cats, dispositional and situational |
| Hovland, Carl | Studied attitude Change-Expert and non sources, sleeper effect |
| Janis, I. | Developed the concept of groupthink to explain how group decision making can sometimes go awry |
| Lerner, M. | proposed concept of belief in a just world |
| Lewin, K. | Divided leadership styles into 3 cats: autocratic, democratic, & laissez-faire |
| Mcguire, William | Studied how psychological inoculation could help people resist persuasion |
| Milgram, S. | Studied obedience by asking sbjects to administer electroshock; also proposed stimulus-overload theory explain differences btw city and country dwellers |
| Newcomb, T | Studied political norms |
| Petty, R. & Cacioppo J. | Developed elaboration likelihood model of persuasion (central and peripheral routes to persuasion) |
| Schachter, Stanley | Studied relationship btw anxiety and the need for affiliation-if anxious about it they'll change, if others are anxious they won't change, they'll feel comfortable |
| Sherif, M. | Used autokinetic effect to study conformity; also performed Robber's Cave experiment and found that having superordinate goals increased intergroup cooperation |
| Zajonc, R. | Studied the mere exposure effect; also resolved problems with the social facilitation effect by suggesting that the presence of others enhances the emission of dominant responses and impairs the emission of nondominant responses |
| Zimbardo, P. | Performed prison simulation and used concept of deindividuation to explain results |
| William McDougal (psyc) & E.H. Ross (soci) | Both wrote the first SP text books |
| Social Exchange theory | We try to increase rewards and decrease loss of interacting with someone |
| Equity theory | We want equitable amount of rewards and costs in our relationships with others as we are receiving from those relationships. |