What's Your IQ?
Mental quality consisting of the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.
What is intelligence?
Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
What is conformity?
This lobe of the brain is responsible for bodily sensations such as touch, pain, pressure, and temperature.
What is the Parietal Lobe?
This person argued for the existence of the unconscious and for the hidden meaning of dreams.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Groups tend to make more extreme decisions than its individual members would have made if acting on their own
What is Group Polarization?
The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to.
What is validity?
The tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal.
What is social loafing?
This nervous system regulates the fight-or-flight response.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
Known as the founder of behaviorism, this researcher examined the generalization of conditioned fear in a boy known as “Little Albert.”
Who is John Watson?
Individuals often go along with a groups potentially bad decision because of a desire for group unanimity.
What is Group Think?
Psychologist who believed people had eight separate intelligences.
Who is Howard Gardner?
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.
What is the mere exposure effect?
This structure is involved with the incorporation of short-term to long-term memories.
What is the Hippocampus?
This person used nonsense syllables to become famous for his “forgetting curve.”
Who is Hermann Ebbinghaus?
The tension that results from a mismatch in one's beliefs and actions.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
The chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of performance.
What is mental age?
A belief that leads to its own fulfillment.
What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?
If this part of the brain is significantly damaged, a person would likely fall into a deep coma and not wake up
What is the reticular formation?
An American psychologist who is best known for her research to the misinformation effect and false memories.
Who is Elizabeth Loftus?
The 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese highlighted a phenomenon marked by a diffussion of responsibility.
What is the Bystander Effect?
Today, the most widely used intelligence test; contains verbal and performance subtests.
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale? (WAIS)
The theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs.
What is the social exchange theory?
In the early 1800s Franz Gall proposed that measuring bumps on the skull could predict mental traits.
What is Phrenology?
Influenced by the events of the Holocaust, this researcher was a professor at Yale who conducted questionable experiments on obedience.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
When advertisers use famous people to endorse its product.
What is Peripheral Route Persuasion?