Misc.
Cognitive framework that helps people interpret and generalize social information
Schema
Name the three prenatal developmental stages in order
Germinal, embryonic, fetal
What bias explains our tendency to blame others’ behavior on personality, not the situation?
Fundamental attribution error (FAE)
Study where participants obeyed authority to deliver fake electric shocks
Milgram experiment
Subjective experiences reported by patients
Symptoms
Manual used by clinicians to standardize psychiatric diagnoses
DSM-5
What are Piaget’s two processes for learning: fitting new information into old schemas vs. modifying schemas?
Assimilation and accommodation
Change in behavior due to real or imagined influence of others
Conformity
What classic study showed conformity due to social pressure using lines of different lengths?
Asch line study
Co-occurrence of multiple disorders in one person
Comorbidity
What is the difference between point prevalence and lifetime prevalence?
Point = at a specific time; lifetime = ever in one’s life
What attachment style shows distress during separation but comfort upon reunion?
Secure attachment
The process of inferring mental states from behavior
Social perception
Conformity that happens because people want to be correct
Informational influence
Condition involving hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking
Schizophrenia
Brain system thought to activate both when performing and observing an action
Mirror neurons
What are Piaget's 4 stages of development?
Sensorimotor (0-2 yrs)
Preoperational (2-7 yrs)
Concrete operational (7-12 yrs)
Formal operational (12+ yrs)
Inferring emotions, intentions, and thoughts from limited cues like facial expressions
Mind-reading/social inference
Conformity that happens because people want to be liked
Normative influence
Chronic mood disorder with cycles of mania and depression
Bipolar disorder
Explanation style that attributes success to personality and failure to external circumstances
Self-serving bias
What is theory of mind, and when does it normally emerge?
Theory of Mind = understanding that others have different beliefs, thoughts, and intentions, around 4-5 years old
Idea that contact between groups reduces prejudice under certain conditions
Contact hypothesis
This theory says conformity depends on group importance, closeness, and size
Social impact theory
What was the Rosenhan experiment?
Study showing patients labeled “mentally ill” had normal behavior reinterpreted as pathological