Social Psych
Define social psychology.
the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole
Name the sleep disorder that is characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks.
Narcolepsy
prominent in Freudian theory; ideas, thoughts, feelings of which we are not aware normally; basis of psychoanalysis
The unconscious
This reinforcer is given after fixed number of responses
Fixed ratio schedule
the biological clock; bodily rhythms that occur in 24 hour cycle (ex. sleep-wake cycle; body temp rises during day, peaks at noon, decreases at night)
Circadian Rhythm
The theory that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent. For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes, often in a self-justifying way.
Cognitive dissonance
The model of psychopathology that proposes that people with an underlying vulnerability (also called a diathesis) may develop a disorder under stressful circumstances.
diathesis-stress model
Freud's theory of personality and form of therapy; based on bringing the conscious unconscious; uses techniques such as free association, dream interpretation, and transference
Psychoanalysis
Name the stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning
Unconditioned stimulus
REM Sleep is
rapid eye movement sleep; starts out small, then gets longer as night progresses; sleep stage in which vivid dreams occur; paradoxical sleep; body does not move
This theory states that we determine someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition; studied by Fritz Heider
The attribution theory
A personality disorder marked by irresponsible and socially disruptive behaviour in a variety of areas is best know as?
Antisocial personality disorder
This person is considered ____ if they are someone who is interested in the world and events around them, turn attention toward external world; energy is gained from outside or external sources; everyone contains both, one is dominant.
This is the type of learning in which a stimulus acquires capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus (Pavlov conditioning)
Classical conditioning
altering cognition and emotion through the use of drugs or other means; forms of experience that depart from the normal subjective experience of the world and the mind
Altered states of consciousness
The foot-in-the-door phenomenon says that
It’s the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
Jamie, while meeting with her primary care physician, states that she has been experiencing frequent panic attacks brought on by feelings of anxiety in social situations. The feelings of fear and anxiety are strongest whenever she is alone in a large crowd or in public spaces where there is no easily identifiable exits in case of an emergency. Jamie could be exhibiting symptoms of which of these disorders?
agoraphobia
Self efficacy is __________.
Bandura; cognitive social learning theory; expectancy that one's efforts will be successful
unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning
Unconditioned response
An amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface. These waves are measured by electrodes placed on the scalp.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
The fundamental attribution error states that...
the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
Pablo was feeling intense and was having frequent and continuous anxiety. Pablo must have...
Anxiety Disorder
Thre wasn’t once a tale about a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father, name the phrase or word of the saying...
Oedipus complex
The ____ law of effect is rewarded behavior more likely to occur (repeated)
Thorndike's Law of Effect
The manifest content of dream is...?
Actual content; Freud's theory that dream content has an apparent story line relevant to real life