Social Situations
adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
What is conformity
a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and, most importantly, (3) conscious experience resulting from one’s interpretations.
What is emotion
an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
What is their personality
a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is motivation
This psychologist derived a hierarchy of needs everyone must try to meet to find self-actualization
Who is Abraham Maslow
the tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable.
What is Social Loafing
a machine used in attempts to detect lies; measures emotion-linked changes in perspiration, heart rate, and breathing.
what is a polygraph
theories that view personality with a focus on the potential for healthy personal growth.
What are Humanistic theories
the need to build and maintain relationships and to feel part of a group.
What is the affiliation need
This psychologist is known to have coined the term psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud
the tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present.
What is the bystander effect
the tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness.
What is the Facial Feedback Effect
theories that view personality with a focus on the unconscious mind and the importance of childhood experiences.
a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level.
What is homeostasis
This Psychologist is attributed with setting the foundation for the trait theory of personality
Who is Carl Jung
the tendency for observers, when analyzing others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition.
What is the fundamental attribution error
The universal emotions we present from birth
What are Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Anger, and Fear
Freud's theory of the mind breaks consciousness into these three parts.
What are the Id, Ego, and Superego
defined as a body mass index (BMI) measurement of 30 or higher, which is calculated from our weight-to-height ratio.
What is obesity
This psychologist proposed the Social-cognitive model and is famous for the bobo doll experiment.
Who is Albert Bandura
the principle that frustration — the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal — creates anger, which can generate aggression.
What is the frustration-aggression principle
When emotion is transferred from one occurrence to another
What is the spillover effect
a view of behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits (including their thinking) and their social context
What is the Social-cognitive prespective
the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law
Who is Gordon Allport