Social Influence & Attribution
This academic field studies how people influence others’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is Social Psychology?
An individual’s consistent pattern of thinking and behavior.
What is personality?
Changing behavior due to group pressure.
What is conformity?
A general term for mental illness.
What is psychopathology?
A severe disorder affecting thinking, perception, and behavior.
What is Schizophrenia?
These are people’s explanations for why events or behaviors occur.
What are attributions?
An enduring characteristic that influences behavior.
What is a trait?
Changing behavior to be liked or accepted by others.
What is normative conformity?
A diagnostic system describing mental disorders by symptoms.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
False sensory experiences, often auditory.
What are hallucinations?
This effect occurs when we overemphasize personality and underestimate situations when judging others’ behavior.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This theory focuses on observable personality characteristics rather than unconscious motives.
What is trait theory?
Changing behavior to be correct or accurate.
What is informational conformity?
A model explaining disorders as vulnerability plus stress.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
Strongly held false beliefs resistant to evidence.
What are delusions?
This happens when we explain our own behavior using situations but others’ behavior using personality.
What is the actor-observer effect?
The five major dimensions include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and this trait.
What is neuroticism?
When people comply with requests from authority figures.
What is obedience?
A mood disorder involving persistent sadness and loss of interest.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
A disorder involving obsessions and compulsions.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This bias leads people to credit success internally and blame failure on external factors.
What is the self-serving bias?
This is a questionnaire used to measure multiple personality traits.
What is a personality inventory?
A strategy where agreeing to a small request increases likelihood of agreeing to a larger one later.
What is the foot-in-the-door technique?
A condition where individuals believe they cannot change their situation even when they can.
What is learned helplessness?
A mood disorder involving alternating mania and depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?