Attributions
How People explain behavior and mental processes in themselves and others
What is Attribution?
Expectations and Roles for individuals/situations
What are Social Norms?
Refusal to acknowledge the reality
What is Denial?
The desire of your body to maintain equilibrium
Homeostasis
Enduring characteristics of a personality that one can be described by
What are traits?
Beliefs that lead to their own fulfillment
What are Self-fulfilling prophecies?
When agreeing to something small leads to agreeing to something larger. (When you give a mouse a cookie)
What is Foot in the Door Phenomenon?
What is Psychodynamic theory?
The theory that we have innate patterns of response that motivate us to actions
What is Instinct Theory?
Rachel (Fully realized potential, caring and secure in herself)
What is an example of a self-actualized person?
Blaming yourself when you do something good, and blaming your environment/others when you do something bad
What is Self-Serving Bias?
An unselfish interest in helping others, sometimes even at the sacrifice of the self
What is Altruism?
Inkblots or other tests that seek to uncover the unconscious parts of the mind. Highly subjective and typically considered invalid
What are Projective Tests?
Ghrelin (Hormone involved in hunger)
What is the hormone that tells your body to eat?
The idea that an interaction of behaviors, cognitions, and environments, create the self
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
A feels no sympathy for the homeless because he believes they deserve their misfortune
What is an example of Just-World Phenomenon?
Many teachers watch students fight, they wait for someone else to break it up.
What is an example of the Bystander Effect?
The mediator between our socially acceptable and socially unacceptable consciousness
What is the ego?
Jeff is 47 and trapped in a virtual reality where every day is the same. He quickly grows mad due to the neverending repetition. Jeff is suffering from this.
What is Boredom Succeptibility?
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, And Neuroticism
What are the BIG FIVE personality traits?
Looking at Aarav and thinking, "at least I'm not as screwed up as him"
What is an example of downward comparison?
I love my cat because she is cute. She is also an absolute monster in every other way. But none of that matters because she is cute.
What is an example of the Halo Effect?
B thinks their friend is cheating off of them because they want to cheat off their friend
What is an example of projection?
The candy prize of this game
What is an example of Extrinsic Motivation?
Celia believes she can get a 5 on the AP test so she studies hard
What is an example of Self-efficacy?