Personality Theories
What is reciprocal determinism?(Bandura)
Personality is shaped by there interaction of personal, behavioral, and environmental factors.
What is narcolepsy?
A condition where a person randomly falls into REM sleep.
What is group polarization
Tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial tendencies of its individuals.
What is drive-reduction theory?
This theory suggests that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
Category of drug that slows down the brain activity and includes alcohol.
Depressants
Who is Freud?
This theorist proposed the id(unconscious system + basic sexual and aggressive drives), ego(conscious division+mediates between demands of all and reality), and superego(contains conscience+develops by incorporating the perceived moral standards of society).
What behavior includes the repetitive behaviors or mental acts in response to unwanted thoughts are symptoms of this disorder?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD).
This is the tendency to overestimate personality and underestimate the situation when explaining someone else's behavior.
Fundamental Attribution Error
Scenario: Jason studies hard because he wants to feel proud, not to just get an A.
Intrinsic motivation
What is the therapy that Carl Rogers developed to focus on genuineness, acceptance, and empathy?
Client-centered Therapy
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This humanistic psychologist that emphasized self-actualization
Bipolar Disorders.
What is Normative Social Influence?
This phenomenon occurs when people conform to gain approval or avoid disapproval.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
This principle states that performance increases with arousal only up to a point.
What is aversive conditioning?
This behavioral technique pairs an unpleasant stimulus with an unwanted behavior.
What is Neuroticism?
Belief that the brain is the primary or sole explanation for human behavior and mental states, also part of the "Big Five" traits include Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Agreeableness.
This phobia includes the irrational fear of heights.
Acrophobia
This term describes when individuals exert less effort in a group task than when working alone.
Social Loafing
Scenario: During a horror movie, Amy's heart pounds and she jumps.
Sympathetic nervous system activation.
What is the Electroconvulsive Therapy?(ECT)
A biological therapy that uses electrical currents to treat severe depression.