Attribution & Attitudes
The tendency to overestimate dispositional and underestimate situational factors.
What is fundamental attribution error?
The famous obedience study involving fake electric shocks was conducted by this psychologist.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
Freud’s structure of personality includes the id, ego, and ___.
What is superego?
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is motivation?
A response involving physiological arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience.
What is emotion?
The belief that people get what they deserve.
What is the just-world phenomenon?
The loss of self-awareness in group settings.
What is deindividuation?
This humanistic psychologist emphasized self-actualization.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Theory stating that we are motivated to maintain internal balance.
What is drive-reduction theory?
The idea that we feel emotion after we notice bodily responses.
What is the James-Lange theory?
A set of beliefs and feelings that predispose reactions toward objects or people.
What is an attitude?
Tendency to perform better on simple tasks when others are watching.
What is social facilitation?
Carl Rogers believed a growth-promoting environment requires these three conditions.
What are genuineness, acceptance, and empathy?
Maslow’s hierarchy says this is the most basic human need.
What is physiological need?
The theory suggesting physiological arousal and emotion occur simultaneously.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
This theory suggests we reduce discomfort when thoughts and actions conflict.
What is cognitive dissonance theory?
A situation where individuals do not offer help in a group setting.
What is the bystander effect?
The Big Five trait that describes how organized and disciplined someone is.
What is conscientiousness
Motivation driven by external rewards.
What is extrinsic motivation?
The two-factor theory of emotion is associated with these two psychologists.
Who are Schachter and Singer?
The phenomenon where people comply with a small request, then a larger one.
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
The influence of group discussion on the strengthening of a prevailing opinion.
What is group polarization?
This perspective emphasizes how we interact with our environment and think about ourselves.
What is the social-cognitive perspective?
This theory explains motivation through optimal levels of arousal.
What is arousal theory?
This brain structure plays a central role in processing emotional responses, especially fear.
What is the amygdala?