We're all in this together
It is when one performs better in front of an audience than she would alone.
What is social facilitation?
Process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system recieve stimulus from our environment.
What is sensation?
A mix of bodily arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience.
What is emotion?
Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts
What is Psychoanalysis?
Sudden unexplainable attacks of anxiety and feeling of intense doom
What is panic attack?
A compliance tactic that aims at getting a person to agree to a large request by having them agree to a modest request first
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
The principle that, to be percieved as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage
What is Weber's law?
Labeling an emotion and a physiological response occur simultaneously.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
According to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes or wants. now known as information process of which we are unaware
What is the unconscious?
Thinking the same thought repeatedly
What is obsession?
When people may privately be concerned about an issue, but in order to avoid conflict, do not express their concern.
What is group think?
The weakest amount of a stimulus that a person can detect half the time
What is absolute threshold?
A physiological response precedes labeling an emotion.
What is the James-Lange theory?
the childhood stages of development during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones
What is psychosexual stages?
Personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions and lack of conscious
What is anti-social disorder?
The theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition; studied by Fritz Heider
What is the attribution theory?
Theory that the retina contains 3 different color receptors-which when stimulated in combination can produce the perception of any color.
What is the Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory?
emotional release. In psychology, this hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges.
What is catharsis?
In psychoanalytic theory, the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality
What are defense mechanisms?
Disorder where victims of traumatic events experience the original events in the form of dreams and nightmares
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Occurs when people are influenced by incidental cues, such as a speaker's attractiveness, emotional music or images.
What is peripheral route to persuasion?
The sense of movement and body position
What is kinesthesis?
One's tendency to be helpful when in a good mood
What is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon?
According to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father
What is Oedipus complex?
The manual of clinical syndromes published by the American Psychiatric Association and used for descriptive diagnosis.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV)?