Social Butterfly
This tendency causes individuals to overemphasize internal/dispositional factors when explaining other people's behavior while underestimating the power of the situation
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
Walter Cannon coined this term for the built-in physiological mechanism that activates the sympathetic nervous system and endocrine system when encountering a threat.
What is the Fight-or-Flight Response?
Intrusive and unwanted thoughts are known as obsessions, while these repetitive, ritualistic behaviors are performed to satisfy the obsessions and relieve distress.
What are Compulsions?
This common strategy is utilized to disenfranchise and foster dissent for certain groups involves blaming an out group when the in-group experiences frustration.
What is scapegoating?
This British actor and comedian was sentenced to ten years in prison after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault.
Who is Russel Brand?
Solomon Asch demonstrated this phenomenon in a classic experiment where 76% of naive participants yielded to group pressure by picking an obviously incorrect line length.
What is Conformity (or the Asch Effect)?
In the cognitive appraisal theory, this initial judgment determines whether a stressor is perceived as a potential threat or a challenge.
What is a Primary Appraisal?
Last updated in 2022 by the American Psychiatric Association, this classification manual provides official diagnostic criteria for mental disorders used by U.S. clinicians.
This type of 'good stress' is associated with positive feelings, optimal health, and performance.
What is eustress?
This 41 year old soccer legend just announced his retirement from the Portuguese international team.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
Philip Zimbardo conducted this famous 1971 study with college students to demonstrate how social roles, norms, and scripts can dramatically shape human behavior.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
Released via the HPA axis during stress, this hormone provides an initial energy boost but can weaken immune function if levels remain continuously elevated.
What is Cortisol?
*Do know this concept, cause there is a MC question on it*
This neurochemical hypothesis attributes the onset and symptoms of schizophrenia to an overabundance of these neurotransmitters and/or their receptors.
What is Dopamine ( the Dopamine Hypothesis)?
Described as a state of effortless concentration, this experience occurs when a person becomes so engrossed in a challenging activity that time seems to fly by.
What is Flow?
This National Treasure star announced that he is "a little bit homeless" after a sinkhole swallowed up his Malibu home.
Who is Nicholas Cage?
This persuasion strategy involves getting a person to agree to a small favor first before following up with a request for a much larger favor.
What is the Foot-in-the-Door Technique?
Martin Seligman coined this term after observing that dogs exposed to inescapable shocks gave up trying to escape even when an exit was provided later.
What is Learned Helplessness?
*Be familiar with this theory, as there will be MC and possibly a SA question on LH*
Bipolar disorder is characterized by both depressive episodes and these other patterns of behavior which include extreme feelings of agitation and elation.
What is mania (manic episodes)?
*Definitely know what mania is for the exam*
Friedman and Rosenman found that individuals exhibiting this personality pattern—marked by intense drive, urgency, impatience, and hostility—were over seven times more prone to heart disease.
What is Type A Personality?
This iconic Star Trek and X Men actor recently passed away at the age of 86.
Who is Patrick Stewart?
According to Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love, consummate love requires a combination of these three components.
What are Intimacy, Passion, and Commitment?
Severe and chronic stress has been shown to accelerate cellular aging by shortening these protective DNA segments located at the ends of chromosomes.
What are Telomeres?
This type of disorder meaning "fear of the marketplace" used to be grouped in with other specific phobias, but most recently got its own separate classification in the DSM-V.
What is agoraphobia?
This disorder, which comes from the Greek for 'frenzied hair pulling', involves individuals plucking out or biting off hair from their eye brows, as well other areas including their hands, beard, arms etc.
What is trichotillomania?
It was recently announced that this rapper and billionaire mogul will headline the Superbowl this year.
Who is Jay-Z?