This psychological approach focuses on how people learn or modify their behavior.
Behaviorist
In this experiment, people quickly conformed to the roles of prisoner and guard.
Stanford Prison Experiment
Shaving your mustache just to "fit in."
Conformity
The tendency to exert less effort while working in a group
Social Loafing
This famous psychologist conditioned dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell.
Ivan Pavlov (Classical Conditioning)
This school of psychology emphasizes how people think and process information
Cognitive Psychologists
The tendency to not stop to help someone if in a large group.
Bystander Effect
Asking for a mile, but you really want an inch.
Door in the Face Phenomenon
Prejudging someone without actual experience
Prejudice
The First Psychologist
Wilhelm Wundt
A psychologist from this perspective may recommend medication to change brain chemistry.
Biological
In this experiment, people acted cruel to others because they were obeying authority.
Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiment
Asking for an inch, but you really want a mile.
Foot in the Door Phenomenon
Following orders and obeying authority figures.
Obedience
Concerned with dreams and urges of the unconscious mind
Sigmund Freud
This school of psychology emphasizes the unconscious mind.
Psychoanalytic
The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted in this decade.
1971 (THIS IS NOT ON THE TEST!)
You are experiencing this when you are more likely to break rules when in a large group and when it's anonymous.
Deindividualism
Considering the best-interest instead of self-interest.
Altruism
This Stanford Professor designed the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment.
This psychological approach believes that each person has the freedom to direct their own future (Past Experiences help experience Future Experiences).
Humanistic Psychology
In his famous conformity experiment, people avoided discomfort by intentionally choosing an incorrect line that matched the sample line.
Solomon Asch's Conformity Experiment
When attitudes do not fit with actions, tensions are often reduced by changing attitudes to match actions.
Cognitive Dissonance
Blaming a person without considering their situation
Fundamental Attribution Error
This humanistic psychologist developed a pyramid that is described as a hierarchy of needs.
Abraham Maslow