an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
What is personality?
100
people agree to a small action and then are more likely to agree to a larger one
What is foot-in-the-door technique?
100
an indirect form of aggression to harm another child's friendships or exclude that child from the group
What is relational aggression?
100
a factor that changes in an experiment
What is a variable?
100
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
200
the part of personality that, according to Freud, represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations
What is the superego?
200
when we know our attitudes and actions don't match
What is cognitive dissonance?
200
the belief that inanimate objects are capable of actions and have lifelike qualities
What is animism?
200
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is inference?
200
false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
What are hallucinations?
300
a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
300
abandoning normal restraints to power of group, loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
What is deindividuation?
300
a faulty type of logic that involves making inferences from one specific to another
What is transductive reasoning?
300
the variable that is purposefully changed; also known as the manipulated variable
What is an independent variable?
300
Losing a sense of who you are and what is real
What is disassociation?
400
according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
400
people believe their own race is best
What is ethnocentrism?
400
When children 5 to 7 years old understand that gender does not change, even if people modify behavior or dress.
What is gender constancy?
400
the difference between the highest value and the lowest value in a set of numbers
What is range?
400
A class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments with no authentic organic basis that are due to psychological factors.
What are somatoform disorders?
500
the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
500
Good behavior is rewarded and bad behavior is punished, believe that other people get what they deserve
What is Just-World Phenomenon?
500
girls and boys are differently rewarded for engaging in gender-appropriate behaviors by their peers and parents
What is differential reinforcement?
500
conditions that are kept the same in an experiment
What is a constant?
500
Intrusive nonsensical thoughts images or urges that individual tries to eliminate or resist