The tendency for people who agree to a small action to comply later with a larger one.
What is the Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon?
100
An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
100
This type of therapy uses the principles of learning, especially classical and operant conditioning to help reduce unwanted responses. These might include behaviors such as addictions, or emotions such as panic.
What is Behavior Therapy?
100
Deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.
What is Compassionate Love?
100
The only research design that allows one to make cause-and-effect inferences is the__________ design
What is experimental design?
200
Assuming a person’s behavior is caused by the situation they were in when they engaged in the behavior.
What is a situational attribution?
200
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts followed by the need to carry out specific actions.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
200
This type of therapy helps people alter the negative thinking that worsens depression and anxiety.
What is cognitive therapy?
200
A strategy for getting someone to comply with a request which involves making a larger request that will most likely be turned down, then making the smaller request that you were really interested in.
What is the "door-in-face" phenomenon?
200
_____ refers to the extent to which differences among individuals are attributable to genetic variations.
What is Heritability?
300
According to this theory, when we become aware that our attitudes and actions don’t coincide, we experience tension, or _______________.
What is cognitive dissonance?
300
Disorganized speech, delusions, hallucinations, and problems with selective attention are symptoms of this psychological disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
300
If your therapist is accepting, genuine, empathetic and shows you unconditional positive regard, you are receiving this type of therapy.
What is Client-Centered therapy?
300
A mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
What is group-think?
300
A person who is carefree and worries very little most clearly ranks low on what Big Five personality trait?
What is neuroticism?
400
________________ refers to unintentionally mirroring the body position and mood of others around us, and leads to contagious yawning, contagious arm folding, hand wringing, face rubbing, etc.
What is the chameleon effect?
400
A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is Bipolar disorder?
400
In this type of therapy, a mild seizure is induced in a patient in attempt to disrupt severe depression.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
400
Psychologists have made extensive use of this to assess whether intelligence is a single trait or a collection of several distinct abilities.
What is factor analysis?
400
A psychoanalytical psychologist would suggest that some who always over indulges in alcohol and sleeps is has a strong ____.
What is id?
500
Social influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval.
What is normative social influence?
500
Individuals with this psychological disorder act impulsively or fearlessly without regard for others’ needs and feelings.
What is Anti-social Personality Disorder?
500
In this type of therapy, a therapist aims to change both cognition and behaviors that are part of a mental health disorder.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
500
According to Gardner's theory, a person who can tell from facial expressions how other people feel has what type of intelligence?
What is emotional intelligence?
500
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.