Abnormal Behavior
The sudden onset of intense anxiety and dread – can cripple patients with minutes-long heart palpitations, shortness of breath, trembling, dizziness, or choking sensations, thus making the functioning of everyday life quite difficult.
What is panic disorder?
The willingness to accept others’ reality.
What is informational social influence?
The tendency to perform better or more intensely in the presence of others on simple or well-learned tasks.
What is social facilitation?
The tendency of frustration to greatly increase the likelihood aggressive behavior.
What is the frustration-aggression principle?
The unselfish concern for others.
What is altruism?
The fear of and avoidance of places where one has felt loss of control or panic (usually by a previously panic attack).
What is agoraphobia?
The study where researchers found that a person is far more likely to be obedient than they perceived themselves to be when instructed by an authority figure
What is the Milgram Experiment?
The tendency to perform worse or exert less effort in groups.
What is social loafing?
The idea that culture (i.e., media, movies, or games in this case) can act as a modeled guide for how to act in various situations.
What is the social-script theory?
A social expectation that one should help people in need of helping—people that are perceivably less able to help themselves.
What is the social responsibility norm?
A positive growth that provides a new insight or outlook on life
What is posttraumatic growth?
The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in the decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives.
What is groupthink?
The loss of one’s self control and identity in the anonymity of a group setting.
What is deindividualization?
The idea that repeated exposures to stimuli breed a liking of said stimuli.
What is the mere-exposure effect?
A situation in which the conflicting parties pursuit of their own self-interest leads to destructive behavior.
What is a social trap?
This aims to describe the disorder, predict its future, imply appropriate treatment, and stimulates research into causes by forming an aggregate tool for the amalgamation of psychological disorders
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.
What is group polarization?
A view that their race or ethnicity is superior to others.
What is the ethnocentric view?
The tendency to like or prefer those whose behavior or appearance is rewarding to us.
What is the reward theory of attraction?
Mutual views held by conflicting people in which each side sees itself as ethical and peaceful and views the other side s evil and aggressive.
What are mirror-image perceptions?
The psychologist that conducted a study to show that psychological disorder labels can change one’s perspective and expectations of someone.
Who is David Rosenhan?
An questionable set of beliefs or doctrines held to be universally or objectively true.
What is orthodoxy?
The tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races.
What is the other-race effect?
The deep affection and attachment that we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.
What is companionate love?
A common goal or enemy two conflict parties can come together to fix or face.
What is a superordinate goal?