Freudian Slippers
In My Defense...
Key People (Personality)
Me, My SELF, and I
Skinny Genes
The Phantom Social Psych
Attack of the Social Psych
Revenge of the Social Psych
A New Social Psych
The Social Psych Strikes Back
Return of the Social Psych
100

The decision-making component of personality that seeks to delay gratification of urges until appropriate

What is the ego? (530)

100

Every time you walk past your crush at school, you flick their ear and laugh

What is reaction formation? (532)

100

Divided personality into 3 components: the id, the ego, and the superego

Who is Sigmund Freud? (526)

100

The second-most basic needs in Maslow's hierarchy

What are safety/security needs? (542)

100

A procedure used to identify closely related clusters of personality traits

What is factor analysis? (550)

100

The willingness to accept others’ reality [often fact-related].

What is informational social influence? (478)

100

 The tendency to perform better or more intensely in the presence of others on simple or well-learned tasks.

What is social facilitation? (486)

100

The tendency of frustration to greatly increase the likelihood aggressive behavior.

What is the frustration-aggression principle? (498)

100

The unselfish concern for others.

What is altruism? (514)

100

This term refers to the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.

What is conformity? (475)

100

These are the unwritten rules about how to behave in a particular social group or culture.

What are social norms? (469)

200

Freud might say that a compulsive smoker developed a fixation at which psychosexual stage?

What is the oral stage? (530)

200

After failing three exams in one day, you go home to blow off steam by playing Grand Theft Auto

What is displacement? (532)

200

This psychologist identified the following traits: Cardinal, Central, and Secondary Traits

Gordon Allport (549)

200

This term describes an individual's overall sense of personal worth or value, often influenced by their beliefs about themselves, their abilities, and their relationships.

What is self-esteem? (542)

200

Someone who prefers to try local restaurants rather than commercial chains when in a new city would likely score highly in this Big Five trait

What is openness (to experience)? (552)

200

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? (478)

200

The tendency to perform worse or exert less effort in groups.

What is social loafing? (487)

200

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? (499)

200

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? (517)

200

This term describes the tendency to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors when judging others' behavior.

What is the fundamental attribution error? (454)

200

This term describes the influence of others that leads us to conform in order to be liked and accepted by them.

What is normative social influence? (478)

300

Material just beneath the surface of awareness that can easily be retrieved can be found here

What is the preconscious? (529)

300

A student who doesn't trust Mr. Heidegger instead believes Mr. Heidegger doesn't trust him

What is projection? (532)

300

Used archetypes to interpret unconscious messages in his patients' dreams

Who is Carl Jung? (534)

300

Rogers' term to describe beliefs about your own personality such as "I'm hardworking" or "I'm pretty"

What is self-concept? (545)

300

The research method that has provided impressive support for the idea that genetics largely shape a person's personality

What are (identical) twin studies? 

300

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? (491)

300

The loss of one’s self control and identity in the anonymity of a group setting.

What is deindividuation? (487)

300

The idea that repeated exposures to stimuli breed a liking of said stimuli.

What is the mere-exposure effect? (504)

300

A situation in which the conflicting parties pursuit of their own self-interest leads to destructive behavior.

What is a social trap? (518)

300

This term refers to the cognitive bias that a person's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, meaning that people get what they deserve.

What is the just-world phenomenon? (461)

300

This term describes the process of comparing oneself to others to evaluate one's own abilities and opinions.

What is social comparison? (456)

400

The id's compass; demands immediate gratification of urges

What is the pleasure principle? (530)

400

A woman who recently went through a breakup channels her emotions into a home improvement project

What is sublimation? (532)

400

Proposed that personality develops because inherited traits make people more/less readily conditioned

Who is Hans Eysenck? (550)

400

The concept Maslow described when he said "what a man can be, he must be"

What is the need for self-actualization? (542)

400

High scores in this Big 5 trait have a negative correlation with income (especially among men)

What is agreeableness? (552)

400

The enhancement of a group’s prevailing inclinations through discussion within the group.

What is group polarization? (488)

400

A view that their race or ethnicity is superior to others.

What is the ethnocentric view?

400

The tendency to like or prefer those whose behavior or appearance is rewarding to us.

What is the reward theory of attraction? (509)

400

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? (519)

400

These are attitudes that are unconscious and can influence feelings and behavior without conscious awareness.

What are implicit attitudes? (457)

400

This term refers to the perception that members of an out-group are more similar to each other than members of one's in-group.

What is out-group homogeneity bias? (463)

500

What Adler identified as the primary source of human motivation (and, as a result, personality)

What is a striving for superiority? (533)

500

Repression is thought to represent a failure in which process of memory?

What is retrieval? (532)

500

Emphasized self-efficacy as a key factor governing behavior

Who is Albert Bandura? (561)

500

Rogers believed this helps develop a congruent self-concept

What is unconditional love/positive regard? (544)

500

[MISC] Full circle behavior and observation of an individual:

Reciprocal Determinism (561)

500

The tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races.

What is the other-race effect? (463)

500

The deep affection and attachment that we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined.

What is companionate love? (509)

500

A common goal or enemy two conflict parties can come together to fix or face.

What is a superordinate goal? (523)

500

This term refers to a prediction that causes itself to become true due to the behavior it generates.

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? (519)

500

This term describes the ways in which individuals change their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment.

What is social influence theory?

500

This term describes a theory of how attitudes are formed and changed, focusing on the different routes of persuasion.

What is the elaboration likelihood model? (471)