The effect that the presence of more people results in the decision to help or not help.
What is Bystander effect.
100
Events that cause a stress reaction
What is a stressor.
100
The entire group of people in which the researcher is interested in.
What is Population.
100
Description, Explanation, Prediction and Control
What is the Goals of Psychology
100
The special molecule that contains the genetic material of the organism.
What is DNA.
200
Changing one's own behavior to match that of other people.
What is Conformity.
200
Unpredictable large scale event that creates a tremendous need to adapt and adjust as well as overwhelming feelings of threat.
What is catastrophe.
200
A measure of the relationship between two variables.
What is Correlation.
200
The father of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
200
twins formed when one zygote splits into two separate masses of cells that result in two embryos.
What is Monozygotic twins.
300
Technique of persuasion that asks for a small commitment and after gaining compliance, asking for a bigger commitment.
What is foot in the door.
300
Conflict that occurs when a person must choose between two desirable goals.
What is approach-approach conflict.
300
Variable that are related in the same direction
What is Positive Correlation.
300
Theory that held the view that people have free will.
What is Humanistic Psychology.
300
Any factor that can cause a birth defect.
What is a teratogen.
400
Theory in which the formation of a person's identity within a particular social group is explained by social categorization, social identity, and social comparison.
What is Social Identity Theory.
400
The three stages of the body's physiological reaction to stress including, alarm, resistance and exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome.
400
Variable in the experiment that is manipulated by the experimenter.
What is Independent Variable.
400
A professional with an academic degree and specialized training in one or more areas of psychology.
What is a Psychologist.
400
A mental concept formed through experiences with objects and events.
What is a scheme/schema.
500
The tendency to evaluate others in terms of the most recent impression.
What is Recency Effect.
500
People who exhibit Type A personality have more chance of a heart attack unless they have this mitigating factor.
What is Hardy personality
500
Variable that interfere with each other and their possible effects on some other variable being studied.
What is Confounding Variables.
500
Tendency of people or animals to behave differently from normal when they know they are being observed.