Emotions & Motivation
You can improve your mood by smiling even when you don't want to because of the
Facial Feedback Effect
Researched the effects of roles by making a lot of college students play prisoners and guards
Philip Zimbardo
This explains why songs that you initially dislike can "grow on you" the more that you hear them.
Mere Exposure Effect
Cultures in which group goals are given greater priority than individual wants or desires are described as being
Collectivist
Part of Freud's theories of personality that referred to the social norms and rules that a person had internalized.
Super-ego
In drive-reduction theory, these two things can work together to both push and pull us towards some behavior
Drives and Incentives
Studied conformity by asking people extremely easy questions but putting them up against social pressure
Solomon Asch
Believing other people can have accurate judgements about reality and relying on those judgements
Informational Social Influence
Americans tend to have bigger smiles than Chinese people because different cultures have different
Display Rules
Unlike the id, which operates according to the pleasure principle, the ego operates based on the
Reality Principle
The fact that people are more likely to become aggressive in hotter weather or busy traffic is known as the...
Frustration-Aggression Principle
Believed that most psychological problems are caused by ways that we distort reality in order to avoid unpleasant truths
Sigmund Freud
This occurs when people begin to self-censor because their desire for group harmony has become more important than realistic appraisal of alternatives
Group Think
Cultures in which norms are flexible, informal, and inconsistently enforced are known as
Loose Cultures
Self-Transcendence
The second kind of love that is experienced when you feel connected someone because you shared your life with them.
Companionate Love
Conducted a study in which participants were made to believe that they were administering painful and dangerous electric shocks.
Stanley Milgram
Social Loafing
People in individualistic cultures are more likely to commit this error related to judging people's actions.
The Fundamental Attribution Error
The idea that our behaviors, internal cognition, and environment called all effect each other is known as
Reciprocal Determinism
This refers to a person's ability to deal with adversity and setbacks and continue to pursue their goals.
Grit
Changed the normal approach to psychology by choosing to focus on healthy, thriving people rather than damaged or unwell ones, and developed his theory of personality on that.
Abraham Maslow
The phenomenon of deindividuation most often occurs in settings in which group participation makes people feel (2 things)
Aroused & Anonymous
This social norm requires that people sometimes do the right thing even when they will not benefit from doing it.
Social Responsibility Norm
Most personality tests use a method called ________ to convert Likert scale questions into data about a person's personality.
Factor Analysis