Social Psychology
This is the altering of one's behavior so that it matches the norms of a group. For example, not wearing jeans if your co-workers don't wear jeans.
Conformity
This LEVEL of the mind, according to Freud, contains ideas that you're not aware of and couldn't be even if you wanted to.
Unconscious
Stanley Milgram's experiments demonstrated this, the adherence to instructions and commands of an authority figure.
Obedience
A person who wakes up in the middle of the night with sudden, seemingly random bouts of terror is experiencing this.
A panic attack
In this therapy, therapists aim to help clients identify negative thoughts, confront them, and replace them with more positive or productive thoughts.
Cognitive Therapy
The death of Kitty Genovese, despite the fact that many neighbors heard her pleas for help, demonstrates the concept of...
Bystander Effect/diffusion of responsibility
This personality structure works to help us achieve our desires/impulses in a realistic way that prevents negative consequences.
The Ego
Albert Bandura and his Bobo Doll experiment demonstrated this, a form of learning in which knowledge and skills are acquired by observing others.
Modeling
A person who has, for at least two weeks, stopped hanging out with their friends, sleeps for most of the day, and does not eat as much as they should is experiencing this.
Major depressive disorder
A person who is afraid to leave their home tries virtual reality in which they experience leaving their home. They then slowly work towards going outside and to the grocery store. What therapy technique is this?
Exposure therapy
Asking someone to sign a petition, then later asking them to donate money to the same cause, is demonstrating this compliance technique.
Foot-in-the-door
Humanistic Theory proposes that human beings' central motivation is...
Self-actualization
Researchers may use _______, similar to actors, to create specific social situations and study human behavior, like Asch did in his conformity study
Confederates
A person who has been experiencing depression for the past two weeks suddenly has very high energy and does not sleep for more than two days. During this period they go on a shopping spree and engage in dangerous behavior. What are they experiencing?
Bipolar disorder (manic-depression)
This technique is used by psychoanalysts to try to help clients gain awareness of repressed memories.
Free association
Real-world events such as the Hajj disasters in Mecca and people's willingness to help others on 9/11 provide insight into the behavior of...
Crowds
This personality theory proposes that our personal characteristics are consistent and aims to identify individual differences
Trait Theory
Walter Mischel studied this personality trait by making children resist the temptation to eat one marshmallow in exchange for the opportunity to eat two marshmallows
Self-regulation or delay of gratification
A person who is repeatedly thinking about germs, and thus engages in cleaning behavior that disrupts their life is experiencing this.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
What type of drug may be used to treat anxiety and depressive orders by addressing abnormal neurotransmitter levels in the brain?
SSRIs
If women are about to take a math exam and are told that women usually score lower than men on the exam, the women will likely do worse than the men in the class. This is a demonstration of what?
Stereotype threat
A social-cognitive theorist might use this approach to examine how people's personalities vary across time and situations.
The if/then method
Zimbardo's Prison Experiment demonstrated how a person's group _______ (e.g., prisoner vs. guard) can affect behavior.
Role
Undesirable mental events experienced by people with schizophrenia (hallucinations, delusions) but rarely experienced by others are considered...
Positive symptoms
It is believed that the underlying cause of schizophrenia is abnormal levels of this neurotransmitter.
Dopamine