Psych 101
This part of the brain is responsible for our "fight or flight" fear response.
What is the amygdala?
In a group project some members are putting in no effort because they assume others will pick up the slack.
What is social loafing?
The experiment in which people were asked to replicate a prison and those labeled "prisoners" were physically and psychologically abused
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
People adjust their behaviour to follow the behaviour or thinking of a group.
What is conformity?
The unofficial rules that dictate behaviour
what are norms?
Children or adolescents who have lived isolated from human contact from a very young age.
What are feral children?
According to Freud, if conflicts in a particular psychosexual stage of development are unresolved, a person may focus their pleasure seeking energies on that stage.
What is fixation?
The surgical removal of the frontal lobe to treat mental illness.
What is a lobotomy?
A psychological phenomenon in which the desire for group harmony overrides realistic evaluation of alternatives.
What is groupthink?
A social custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing
What is a taboo?
The branch of psychology that focuses on how people grow and change over the course of their lifetimes.
What is developmental psychology?
A systematic thought process caused by the tendency of the human brain to simplify information processing through a filter of personal experience and preferences.
What is cognitive bias?
This device that was meant to detect whether civil servants were gay, was developed by a Carlton University psychologist with funding from the Canadian government.
What is the fruit machine?
The process whereby group opinions become more extreme.
What is polarization?
All living primates and their ancestors
What are hominids?
What are cues that reveal the purpose of a study and cause participants to alter behaviour to fit the researcher’s expectations?
The theory that suggests we naturally prefer to believe in positive statements about ourselves, especially if they include a reference for a desirable future event.
What is the Barnum/Forer effect?
This concept was popularised by philosopher Hannah Arendt, referring to the idea that ordinary people can commit horrific acts without malicious intent, simply by conforming to societal norms and following orders.
What is the banality of evil?
A phenomenon where individuals perform better on simple or well-practiced tasks when in the presence of others, compared to when they are alone.
What is social facilitation?
As a theory, this proposes to explain how and why men maintain dominant social roles over women.
What is hegemonic masculinity?
The mental discomfort that results from realising our behaviour conflicts with our attitudes.
What is cognitive dissonance?
A behavioral process whereby a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment as a result of reinforcement.
What is conditioning?
In this experiment, a subject was told to send electric shocks each time the "student" answered a question incorrectly.
What is the Milgrim experiment?
One of the factors that must be in place for someone to obey orders.
What is:
- The person giving the orders is perceived as being qualified to direct other people’s behaviour
OR
- The person being ordered is able to believe that the authority will accept responsibility for any negative consequences
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The theory that language not only labels reality, but shapes it as well.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?