Chapter 11
Chapter 11 Continued
Chapter 12
Mystery Box
Mixed Bag
100
Usually negative, of another person on the basis of his or her membership in a group.
What is prejudice?
100
Attributing personal success to dispositional causes while attributing personal failure to situational causes.
What is self-serving bias?
100
A clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.
What is a psychological disorder?
100
A disorder characterized by repeated panic attacks and fear of future attacks.
What is panic disorder?
100
Survival, making connections, benefiting from one another, etc.
What are reasons human beings are social?
200
The uncomfortable state that occurs when behavior an attitudes do not match and that can be resolved through attitude change.
What is cognitive dissonance?
200
Attributing group success to dispositional causes while attributing group failures to situational causes.
What is group-serving bias?
200
Estimate of the number (%) of individuals who experience a psychological disorder
What is approximately 50%?
200
The conscious intent to harm another.
What is aggression?
200
Perceived characteristics and intentions of others that only takes a few seconds of exposure to be determined.
What is a first impression?
300
Young men who had been randomly assigned to prisoner or guard roles quickly adopted behaviors consistent with those roles, leading to such inappropriate behavior that the study was stopped after only 6 days instead of the planned 14 days.
What is the Stanford Prison Study?
300
Intimacy + Passion
What is romantic love?
300
A system for classification of psychological disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
What is the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
300
Matching behavior and appearance to perceived social norms.
What is conformity?
300
The presence of other people changes performance.
What is social facilitation?
400
Demonstrated that when personal ethics come into conflict with demands from an authority, the authority usually wins.
What is the Milgram Study?
400
Intimacy + Commitment
What is companionate love?
400
A disorder featuring anxiety that is not proportional to a person's circumstances.
What is an anxiety disorder?
400
Usually unwritten or unspoken rules for behavior in social settings.
What are social norms?
400
A judgment assigning the cause of a person's behavior to his or her personal qualities or characteristics.
What is dispositional attribution?
500
A type of flawed decision making in which a group does not question its decisions critically.
What is group think?
500
Intimacy + Commitment + Passion
What is consummate love?
500
A disorder characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that is not correlated with particular objects or situations.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
500
Unfair behavior based on stereotyping and prejudice.
What is discrimination?
500
A judgment assigning the cause of a person's behavior to his or her environment.
What is situational attribution?
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