Social Psychology
Branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another
What is social psychology?
Explain Jane Elliot's brown-eyed blue-eyed study
She divided her classroom by eye color, with brown-eyed students being privileged and blue-eyed students facing discrimination. It highlighted how easy it is for humans to form ingroup bias/favoritism even on something as unimportant as eye color.
Adjusting one's behavior or thinking towards a groups standard, as evidence in Asch's study with the length of a line
What is conformity?
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
What is personality?
Disturbance in people’s thoughts, emotions or behaviors that causes distress or suffering
What is a psychological disorder?
People attribute the causes of another's actions with these two choices
What are their personality or the situation?
Psychological disorder characterized by a continuous state of tension, fearfulness, and autonomic nervous system arousal
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
What are hallucinations and delusions?
Theories of personality focused on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment
What are humanistic theories?
The difference between major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder?
What are the severity and the duration?
Our tendency to underestimate the impact of situation and to overestimate the impact of personality in explaining the behavior of others
What is the fundamental attribution error?
Situations that create deindividuation
What are situations where you feel anonymous, are highly aroused, and are less restrained?
The tendency to exert less effort when they are working with others toward a common goal
What is social loafing?
Theory of personality proposed that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality
What is psychodynamic?
Personality disorder characterized by a lack of a conscience?
What is antisocial personality disorder?
The discomfort we feel when our thoughts and behaviors are inconsistent
What is cognitive dissonance?
Factors according to trait theorists of personality
What are clusters of behavior tendencies that occur together?
Disorder characterized by impaired theory of mind?
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Theories of personality explore the interaction between people's traits and their social context
What are social-cognitive theories?
Disorder characterized by unwanted, intrusive, and persistent thoughts and rituals to reduce anxiety
What is OCD?
Explain Milgram's obedience study. What were the conclusions?
People will commit heinous acts, even if they do not want to, when they are ordered to by authority figures.
The big five trait dimensions are
What are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism?
People are less likely to give aid if an emergency occurs in the presence of many observers
What is bystander effect?
According to Albert Bandura, the interacting influences of behavior, internal personal factors, and environment illustrate
What is reciprocal determinism?
Disorder associated with two or more distinct identities
What is dissociative identity disorder?