Social Psychology
Attributions & Mate Selection
Psychological Disorders
Psychotherapy
Misc.
100

As you are driving down the highway, you notice the speed limit change. You continue driving at the same speed as the other drivers around you.

What is conformity?

100

The strongest influence on courtship behavior

What is physical attractiveness?

100
Resource used to help professionals diagnose different disorders
What is DSM-IV-TR?
100

Therapies that emphasize the here-and-now, reawakening emotions in the present moment as the whole person is examined.

What is Gestalt therapy?

100
The concept illustrated by the Kitty Genovese case; the more people see an event, the less likely each are to intervene and help.
What is the bystander effect?
200

Your psychology professor tells you to bring a stuffed animal to class tomorrow. Though you do not understand why you need to bring your teddy to class, you do so.

What is obedience

200
From an evolutionary perspective, this is what we are attracted to in another individual's body shape or structure.
What is fertility?
200
Jason seems to be two different people at times. He has a disorder that leads to his experiencing days where he bounces off the walls, and others where he cannot get out of bed.
What is bipolar disorder?
200
This form of therapy aims to replace maladaptive activities and behaviors with more appropriate ones.
What is behavior therapy?
200
Percentage of people in the U.S. who actually have a diagnosis and receive treatment for it.
What is 8%?
300

The experimenter studied conformity by placing individuals in social situations where confederates gave an obviously incorrect response to a task.

Who is Asch?

300

This factor of mate selection leads to familiarity, which increases the likelihood of fondness and liking for another.

What is proximity?

300
Your brother often acts entitled to things. He feels as if he is better than most people and therefore deserves more.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
300
This therapy aims to identify, challenge, and change faulty beliefs and thoughts.
What is cognitive therapy?
300
The process that allows an individual to watch their biological responses to events in the hopes that they can control them later on
What is biofeedback?
400

This experimenter studied obedience as he placed participants in a situation in which they were testing word-pair memory and shocking fellow participants for incorrect responses.

Who is Milgram?

400
This hypothesis states that we are attracted to those who are similar to us.
What is matching hypothesis?
400
Linda has frequent thoughts about deviant sexual behavior. In order to relieve the stress that these thoughts cause her, she checks her oven 8 times before leaving her house each morning
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
400
This therapy aims to teach its clients more about their own thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and motives.
What is insight therapy?
400
Legal term indicating that an individual is not responsible for their actions because they were mentally ill at the time they completed the acts
What is insanity?
500

This experimenter looked at deindividuation as he watched morals, values, and behaviors change in the participants of his experiment, based on the identity they were assigned to, such as prison guards and prisoners.

Who is Zimbardo?

500

The practice of using one characteristic to assume things about the rest of an individual's personality (e.g. what is beautiful is good, smart, etc)

What is the halo effect?

500
A client you are working with experienced traumatic sexual abuse as a young child. In your therapy sessions, you begin to notice some behaviors that are not consistent with the client you know. The physical body is the same, but it feels as if you are dealing with an entirely different person.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
500
The most important factor of an effective therapy
What is therapist-client match/alliance?
500
Common model of etiology that illustrates that a biological predisposition is enacted by an environmental life stressor
What is diathesis-stress model?
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