Behavior
The belief that the world is fair where good actions are rewarded and bad actions are punished.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
Developed the 8 stages of psychosocial development and proposed that individuals face a psychological development crisis at each stage.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Psychologist who started this theory.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Refusing to accept reality or facts.
What is denial?
Solomon Asch used this experiment to study conformity.
What is the line study?
Taking credit for success, but blaming failures on the situation.
What is the self-serving bias?
Argued that our personality is driven by social tensions (not sexual ones) and our desire to overcome feelings of inadequacy.
Who is Alfred Adler?
Part of the unconscious that is guided by the Pleasure Principle.
What is the Id?
Justifying behaviors or feelings with logical reasons (even if inaccurate).
What is rationalization?
A famous study by a famous psychologist where 65% of adults performed (fake) lethal shocks because they were ordered to.
What is Milgram's obedience study?
Blaming the person's personality, ignoring the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Argued that personality is shaped by social security and relationships.
Who is Karen Horney?
Balances the id's desires with reality (the conscious).
What is the ego?
Uconsciously forgetting dangerous impulses or traumatic memories.
What is repression?
Philip Zimbardo had to shut down his experiment early because participants took their assigned roles too seriously.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
Blaming our actions on the situation and blame the actions of others on their personality.
What is actor-observer bias?
Studied conscious and unconscious minds and argued that the goal in life was to achieve individualism.
Who is Carl Jung?
An internal judge that decides what is right or wrong to do.
What is the superego?
Behaving the opposite of how you feel.
What is reaction formation?
This effect explains why people are less likely to help a victim if there are others around.
What is the bystander effect?
The belief that you have control over your own life.
What is the internal locus of control?
Neo Freudians believed personality was driven by this type of interaction.
What is social interaction?
Technique where patients say whatever comes to their mind to uncover the unconscious.
What is free association?
Transform negative energy into positive outlets.
What is sublimation?
The tendency for individuals to become less productive in a group.
What is social loafing?