The tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact the personality.
What is fundamental attribution error?
100
This operates on the reality principle. This satisfies desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.
What is the ego?
100
This person did the classical conditioning dog experiment.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group.
What is a survey?
100
The term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.
What is Type A?
200
The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
What is foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
200
A lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved.
What is fixation?
200
This person did an experiment dealing with pigeons?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
200
A graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables.
What is a scatterplot?
200
Events such as war and natural disasters, that nearly everyone appraises as threatening.
What is a catastrophe?
300
Solomon Asch's line experiment deals with this.
What is conformity?
300
An attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
What is unconditional positive regard?
300
The person who randomly designated people as either guards or prisoners for his prison study.
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
300
The experimental factor that is manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
300
Attempting to alleviate stress directly by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor?
What is problem-focused coping?
400
Influence resulting from one's willingness to accept others' opinions about reality.
What is social influence?
400
A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors.
What is a personality inventory?
400
This man did an experiment with monkeys involving attachment.
Who is Harry Harlow?
400
A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.
What is the standard deviation?
400
The concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three states- alarm, resistance and exhaustion.
What is the general adaptation syndrome?
500
The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in the group situations that foster arousal and anonymity?
What is deindividuation?
500
Name the Big Five personality factors.
What is conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion?
500
This person was the first female president of the American Psychological Association.
Who is Mary Calkins?
500
Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups.
What is random assignment?
500
The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle. This is the leading cause of death in many developed countries.