Social Influence
People tend to perform better on simple tasks when others are watching.
This psychologist conducted a famous line experiment on conformity.
Who is Solomon Asch?
This humanistic psychologist proposed the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Maslow?
A commonly used objective personality test with 500+ true/false questions.
What is the MMPI?
Helping behavior that benefits others with no obvious reward.
What is altruism?
This term describes reduced effort when people work in groups.
What is social loafing?
Changing behavior because you truly believe the group is correct.
What is informational social influence?
Carl Rogers believed people grow when they receive this type of acceptance.
What is unconditional positive regard?
Projective test where people interpret inkblots.
What is Rorschach Inkblot Test?
Prejudice plus discrimination against a group based on ethnicity.
What is racism?
Stanley Milgram's experiment demonstrated people's willingness to do this.
What is obey authority figures?
When personal beliefs conflict with behavior, people experience this mental tension.
What is cognitive dissonance?
Freud's personality structure consisting of id, ego, and superego is called this.
What is the psychoanalytic theory?
A storytelling projective test involving ambiguous pictures.
What is the TAT?
Unjustified negative attitudes toward a group
What is prejudice?
This concept explains why individuals may feel less responsible for helping in emergencies when others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
The tendency for group decision-making to suppress dissent and lead to poor decisions.
What is groupthink?
This trait theory describes personality using five major traits.
What is the Big Five (OCEAN)?
This refers to how consistently a test measures something.
What is reliability?
Explaining someone's behavior by internal traits while ignoring the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This explains how people adjust their behavior to align with group expectations.
What is normative social influence?
The phenomenon where group discussion strengthens members' original opinions.
What is group polarization?
Bandura's theory that personality is shaped by interaction of behavior, environment, and cognition.
What is social-cognitive theory?
This term describes whether a test actually measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
The tendency to favor one's own group over others.
What is in-group bias?