Freudian Slippers
The decision-making component of personality that seeks to delay gratification of urges until appropriate
What is the ego? (530)
Every time you walk past your crush at school, you flick their ear and laugh
What is reaction formation? (532)
Divided personality into 3 components: the id, the ego, and the superego
Who is Sigmund Freud? (526)
The second-most basic needs in Maslow's hierarchy
What are safety/security needs? (542)
A procedure used to identify closely related clusters of personality traits
What is factor analysis? (550)
The willingness to accept others’ reality [often fact-related].
What is informational social influence? (478)
The tendency to perform better or more intensely in the presence of others on simple or well-learned tasks.
What is social facilitation? (486)
The tendency of frustration to greatly increase the likelihood aggressive behavior.
What is the frustration-aggression principle? (498)
The unselfish concern for others.
What is altruism? (514)
This term refers to the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.
What is conformity? (475)
These are the unwritten rules about how to behave in a particular social group or culture.
What are social norms? (469)
Freud might say that a compulsive smoker developed a fixation at which psychosexual stage?
What is the oral stage? (530)
After failing three exams in one day, you go home to blow off steam by playing Grand Theft Auto
What is displacement? (532)
This psychologist identified the following traits: Cardinal, Central, and Secondary Traits
Gordon Allport (549)
This term describes an individual's overall sense of personal worth or value, often influenced by their beliefs about themselves, their abilities, and their relationships.
What is self-esteem? (542)
Someone who prefers to try local restaurants rather than commercial chains when in a new city would likely score highly in this Big Five trait
What is openness (to experience)? (552)
The study where researchers found that a person is far more likely to be obedient than they perceived themselves to be when instructed by an authority figure
What is the Milgram Experiment? (478)
The tendency to perform worse or exert less effort in groups.
What is social loafing? (487)
The idea that culture (i.e., media, movies, or games in this case) can act as a modeled guide for how to act in various situations.
What is the social-script theory? (499)
A social expectation that one should help people in need of helping—people that are perceivably less able to help themselves.
What is the social responsibility norm? (517)
This term describes the tendency to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors when judging others' behavior.
What is the fundamental attribution error? (454)
This term describes the influence of others that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them.
What is normative social influence? (478)
Material just beneath the surface of awareness that can easily be retrieved can be found here
What is the preconscious? (529)
A student who doesn't trust Mr. Heidegger instead believes Mr. Heidegger doesn't trust him
What is projection? (532)
Used archetypes to interpret unconscious messages in his patients' dreams
Who is Carl Jung? (534)
Rogers' term to describe beliefs about your own personality such as "I'm hardworking" or "I'm pretty"
What is self-concept? (545)
The research method that has provided impressive support for the idea that genetics largely shape a person's personality
What are (identical) twin studies?
The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in the decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
What is groupthink? (491)
The loss of one’s self control and identity in the anonymity of a group setting.
What is deindividuation? (487)
The idea that repeated exposures to stimuli breed a liking of said stimuli.
What is the mere-exposure effect? (504)
A situation in which the conflicting parties pursuit of their own self-interest leads to destructive behavior.
What is a social trap? (518)
This term refers to the cognitive bias that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, meaning that people get what they deserve.
What is the just-world phenomenon? (461)
This term describes the process of comparing oneself to others to evaluate one's own abilities and opinions.
What is social comparison? (456)
The id's compass; demands immediate gratification of urges
What is the pleasure principle? (530)
A woman who recently went through a breakup channels her emotions into a home improvement project
What is sublimation? (532)
Proposed that personality develops because inherited traits make people more/less readily conditioned
Who is Hans Eysenck? (550)
The concept Maslow described when he said "what a man can be, he must be"
What is the need for self-actualization? (542)
High scores in this Big 5 trait have a negative correlation with income (especially among men)
What is agreeableness? (552)
The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.
What is group polarization? (488)
A view that their race or ethnicity is superior to others.
What is the ethnocentric view?
The tendency to like or prefer those whose behavior or appearance is rewarding to us.
What is the reward theory of attraction? (509)
Mutual views held by conflicting people in which each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side s evil and aggressive.
What are mirror-image perceptions? (519)
These are attitudes that are unconscious and can influence feelings and behavior without conscious awareness.
What are implicit attitudes? (457)
This term refers to the perception that members of an out-group are more similar to each other than members of one's in-group.
What is out-group homogeneity bias? (463)
What Adler identified as the primary source of human motivation (and, as a result, personality)
What is a striving for superiority? (533)
Repression is thought to represent a failure in which process of memory?
What is retrieval? (532)
Emphasized self-efficacy as a key factor governing behavior
Who is Albert Bandura? (561)
Rogers believed this helps develop a congruent self-concept
What is unconditional love/positive regard? (544)
[MISC] Full circle behavior and observation of an individual:
Reciprocal Determinism (561)
The tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races.
What is the other-race effect? (463)
The deep affection and attachment that we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.
What is companionate love? (509)
A common goal or enemy two conflict parties can come together to fix or face.
What is a superordinate goal? (523)
This term refers to a prediction that causes itself to become true due to the behavior it generates.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? (519)
This term describes the ways in which individuals change their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment.
What is social influence theory?
This term describes a theory of how attitudes are formed and changed, focusing on the different routes of persuasion.
What is the elaboration likelihood model? (471)