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This famous experiment from Zimbardo and colleagues had students act as prisoners and guards for six days, though the experiment was supposed to last two weeks.
What is the Stanford Prison Experiment?
What is optimism bias?
This principle from Zajonc demonstrates that we tend to like people we see more often.
What is mere exposure?
This period of life from the age of 18, though the mid-20's was developed as a recent subclassification of adulthood.
What is emerging adulthood?
Dr. Hyde is discussing the changes in the structure of the domestic family unit though the 1990's until the 2020's. When talking about absentee parents, Dr. Hyde asks Tony, a black man in class, what it was like growing up without a father. Tony did grow-up with out a father, but he had never discussed this with Dr. Hyde. Dr. Hyde is manifesting this bias.
What is implicit bias?
Peter demonstrates this principle when he tends to think of one representative example and uses it as a general rule.
What is the availability heuristic?
As dance challenges/demos became the the #1 trend on TikTok, content creators adjust their behavior to be part of a new standard demonstrating this social psychology principle.
What is conformity?
According to Erikson, these two opposing issues occur in young adulthood between someone 20s-40s where they seek emotional, sexual, and stable relationships and avoid social isolation.
What is intimacy vs. isolation?
According to Erikson, this these two issues are at odds in stage 8 of psychosocial development, where people focus on evaluating the overall quality of life and their individual legacy.
What is integrity vs. despair?
Andi and Jessie go on a date. Andi arrives first and Jessie has to come from working at the hospital. Jessie had to stay late at the hospital to save a patient and goes directly to the date. As a result, Jessie couldn't change out of scrubs. Andi sees Jessie didn't change, and thinks that Jessie is a sloppy person. After the date, Andi describes Jessie as a dirty and uncaring about appearance. Andi is demonstrating this.
What is the anchoring bias?
This study from Darley and Batson looked at this effect by observing helping behavior in seminarians.
What is the bystander effect?
While TikTok fame can boost self-esteem, research has shown that it can also increase these tendences, typically considered to be self-esteem gone wild and an inflated sense of self-importance.
What are narcissistic tendencies?
American Fraternities and Sororities often use this tactic, which is also commonly found in cults, the military, and dictatorial regimes.
What is deindividuation?
This term is used to describe when it is socially and culturally expected to achieve certain life-milestones such as moving out of your parents' home, getting married, having children, and retiring.
What is the social clock?
Anjali is Bob's commanding officer in the military. Anjali orders Bob to threaten a prisoner's family so that the prisoner will provide intel on enemy movements. Bob initially objects and says that it violates POW laws and their military code. Anjali, however, tells Bob to do it anyways and he does. Bob is demonstrating what principle studied by Milgram?
What is obedience to authority?
This effect studied by Thorndike showed that more attractive and physically impressive individuals were more highly thought of.
What is the Halo Effect?
According to Kings College London social media sites like TikTok accent FOMO and social exclusion which are perceived symptoms of this.
What is ostracism or social isolation?
Dating apps, video games, and other types of media typically promote this, where sexual features are accent to increase sexual motivation and product consumption.
What is hypersexuality or hypersexualization?
This term popularized by the media is supposedly the male version of menopause that tracks a decrease in testosterone in middle age. The scientific jury is still out on how real the phenomena is, however.
What is andropause?
Sahar is driving home from work and always takes the freeway. When she takes the offramp home, she see a homeless man begging for money and food. She thinks to herself that he is lazy and isn't willing to work at a job. Sahar is applying this cognitive bias.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
The processer that feeds implicit bias and other cognitive biases is described as these two characteristics.
What are fast, intuitive, or emotional?
Asch's line experiment demonstrated which type of social influence?
What is normative social influence?
According to most 20th century developmental theorists, most social development coincides with this biological process characterized by sexual maturation and desires.
What is puberty?
This general type of neurological/neurocognitive disorders includes Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease
What are neurodegenerative disorders?
What is hindsight bias?