Personality Psych
What is the social-cognitive perspective?
What is the interaction between individuals & environments
What are the Big Five personality factors?
What is openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
What is the definition of social psychology?
The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to each other as groups and as individuals
What is a stereotype?
What is a belief about members of a particular group (overgeneralization)
What is overt prejudice and subtle prejudice?
What is overt prejudice is open and conscious and subtle prejudice is unconscious
What is the goal of the trait perspective?
What is discover and measure important traits
What is the person-situation controversy and what do psychologists suggest to address the concern?
What is behavior varies from situation to situations (what is more important--person or situation)--> its best to average across situations
What is social cognition?
What is how we perceive, remember, and interpret info about ourselves and others
What is discrimination?
What is unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members
What are superordinate goals and how do they facilitate cooperation?
What is shared goals that require cooperation and people who might not normally get along will often cooperate to achieve these goals
What are the problems with using questionnairs?
What is rely on self-reports, people might not answer honestly making measurement invalid, social desirability
What is reciprocal determinism?
What is personality + environment = behavior
What are attributions and what are the 2 types
What are the pros and cons of conformity?
What is pros (promotes harmony and cooperation within in group) and cons (promotes prejudice against people who are different and outgroup members)
What stage of sleep is characterized by delta waves?
What is stage 4
What is extraversion/introversion and emotional stability
What are the 2 types of locus of control within the social-cognitive perspective?
What is external vs. internal
What are the 3 components of attitudes?
What is cognitive, emotional, and behavioral
What is social facilitation?
What is the presence of others enhances performance on simple tasks and impairs performance on complex tasks
What is the ABC triad?
What is affect, behavior, and cognition
What does the MMPI assess?
What is both disorders and personality type
What is learned helplessness?
What is failing to respond even though there are opportunities for help
What is prejudice?
What is an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude towards members of a particular group
What is social loafing?
What is the tendency to exert less effort on group tasks
What is the milgram study?