Psych Approaches
This psych approach focuses on how people learn or modify their behavior
What is behaviorist
In this experiment, people quickly conformed to the roles of prisoner and guard.
What is the Stanford prison experiment
Shaving your mustache just to “fit in.”
What is conformity
The tendency to exert less effort while working in a group.
What is social loafing
This famous psychologist conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.
What is Ivan Pavlov (classical conditioning)
What is cognitive psych
This is the tendency to not stop to help someone if in a large group
Asking for a mile, but you really want an inch.
What is door in the face
Prejudging someone without actual experience.
What is prejudice
The first psychologist
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
A psychologist from this field may recommend medication to change brain chemistry
Ivan Pavlov conducted classical conditioning experiments on these animals.
What is dogs
Asking for an inch, but you really want a mile.
What is foot in the door
Following orders and obeying authority figures.
What is obedience
Concerned with dreams and urges of the unconscious mind.
Who is Sigmund Freud
This school of psych emphasizes the unconscious mind
What is psychoanalytic
In this experiment, people acted cruel to others because they were obeying authority.
What is the Stanley Milgram obedience experiment
You are experiencing this when you are more likely to break rules when in a large group and when it's anonymous.
What is deindividualism
Considering the best-interest instead of self-interest
What is altruism
This Stanford Professor designed the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment.
Who is Zimbardo
This psych approach believes that each person has the freedom to direct their own future
What is humanistic
In his famous conformity experiment, people avoided discomfort by intentionally choosing an incorrect line that matched the sample line
What is the Solomon Asch’s Conformity Experiment?
When attitudes do not fit with actions, tensions are often reduced by changing attitudes to match actions.
What is cognitive dissonance
Blaming a person without considering their situation.
What is fundamental attribution error
This humanistic psychologist developed a pyramid that is described as a hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow