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This year is when psychology became a distinct area of study?
What is 1895?
Once you commit, you're more likely to comply with requests in line with your stated position.
What is the consistency principle?
This disorder may result in a pounding heart, sweating, trembling and shaking, feelings of choking, chest pain, and derealization.
What is panic disorder?
This disorder is defined as being essentially a mild but long term form of bipolar II which must be present for at least two years and cycles between low grade depressive symptoms and low grade manic symptoms.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder?
Schemas that help us organize information about people based on membership in certain groups. Can be based around truth.
Result of a cult movement in South America where a mass suicide led by Jim Jones resulted in 918 deaths because of persuasion techniques.
What is the Jamestown Massacre?
We are more willing to comply with requests of friends or others we like (physical attractiveness, similarity, compliments, cooperation).
What is the friendship/liking principle?
This disorder is defined by a chronic worry for at least six months accompanied by at least three negative symptoms.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This disorder is defined by a long term depressive episode, fatigue or loss of energy, insomnia or hypersomnia, inability to concentrate, thoughts of death, and/or significant loss or gain of weight.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Negative feelings, opinions, and beliefs associated with stereotypes.
What are prejudices?
The failure to offer help by those who observe someone in need because they assume someone else will help.
What is bystander apathy?
You are more likely to follow someone of legitimate authority; authority based on situation.
What is the authority principle?
This part of a disorder is defined by repetitive behaviors or mental acts which are employed to prevent or reduce the anxiety from obsessions or to prevent a feared outcome.
What are compulsions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Characterized as having manic episodes.
What is Bipolar I disorder?
Inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people based on prejudice.
What is discrimination?
The space between what a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
What is the zone of proximal development?
Returning the behavior that you have received
(ex. door-in-the-face, that's-not-all).
What is the Reciprocation Principle?
This part of a disorder is defined as recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are intrusive and cause marked increase in anxiety, resulting in an attempt to suppress or ignore.
What are obsessions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This disorder is a very long depressive episode which must be present for at least two years and is very impairing to one's life.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Allows for stereotypes to continue by creating a separate category.
What is subtyping?
These are environmental pressures that harm a fetus.
What are teratogens?
We are more likely to try to try and get things that are scarce of dwindling; if there's not much of it, it must be good; fewer options, fewer freedoms.
What is the Scarcity Principle?
This disorder is defined as a psychological response to exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This disorder is defined as having at least one major depressive episode and hypomania.
What is Bipolar II disorder?
The tendency to view out-group members as less varied than in-group members.
What is that out-group homogeneity effect?