Social Situations
This phenomenon describes improved performance on simple tasks when others are watching.
What is Social Facilitation?
Freud’s term for the part of the mind that houses hidden memories and desires not easily accessible.
What is the Unconscious Mind?
This law states performance increases with arousal only up to a point, then decreases.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
The error of overestimating personality and underestimating the situation when judging others.
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error?
This research method involves manipulating one variable to determine its effect on another.
What is an Experiment?
The loss of self-awareness and restraint in anonymous, high-arousal group settings.
What is Deindividuation?
This "Big Five" trait signifies how organized, self-disciplined, and goal-driven a person is.
What is Conscientiousness?
The hunger-arousing hormone secreted by an empty stomach.
What is Ghrelin?
A belief that leads to its own fulfillment, often seen in teacher-student expectations.
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
This ethical guideline requires participants be told the true purpose of a study after it ends.
What is Debriefing?
The tendency for group members to suppress reservations to maintain harmony in decisions.
What is Groupthink?
Bandura's term for the interacting influences between personality and environment.
What is Reciprocal Determinism?
The theory that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates us to satisfy it.
What is Drive-Reduction Theory?
This bias involves attributing your own actions to external causes but others' to internal ones.
What is the Actor-Observer Bias?
A statistical method used to describe variability among observed variables via fewer factors.
What is Factor Analysis?
Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.
What are Superordinate Goals?
A defense mechanism where one shifts aggressive impulses toward a less threatening object.
What is Displacement?
Motivation to engage in an activity purely for its own sake rather than a reward.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Perceiving members of an "out-group" as being more similar to each other than "in-group" members.
What is Out-Group Homogeneity Bias?
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond our control determine our fate.
What is External Locus of Control?
This effect explains why repeated exposure to a novel stimulus increases our liking of it.
What is the Mere Exposure Effect?
Rogers’ term for an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
What is Unconditional Positive Regard?
This conflict type involves a single choice that has both appealing and unappealing aspects.
What is an Approach-Avoidance Conflict?
Attributing failures to external, unstable, and specific causes is typical of this style.
What is Optimistic Explanatory Style?
This type of analysis evaluates qualitative and quantitative research designs for flaws.
What is Research Design Evaluation?