Ch 10
The study of how people think and behave in social situations we experience is called ____.
social psychology
An adult who cannot resist an impulse to gamble all of his money is responding to the energy of his ____.
id
Stress is any ____.
stimulus or event that we respond to because we perceive it as threatening or challenging
The cognitive perspective of abnormal behavior is to ____, as the humanistic perspective of abnormal behavior is to ____.
distorted thinking; distorted sense of self
Hostile aggression is designed to ____.
hurt the victim
The study of attribution is concerned with the ____.
process of assigning cause to behavior
According to Freud, behaviors such as smoking, chewing gum, and biting one’s fingernails probably can be traced back to unmet needs during which psychosexual stage?
oral
For most people, ____ will be their greatest source of stress.
daily hassles
A clinical psychologist who is attempting to make a mental illness diagnosis is likely to consult the ____.
DSM
A personality assessment tool that requires individuals to look at ambiguous pictures and describe what they see is a ____.
projective test
Discrimination is a ____.
behavioral expression of prejudice/treating people differently
Alfred Adler emphasized the idea of ____.
birth order
Health psychologists define conflict as ____.
having to choose between two or more options
Anxiety is considered abnormal when it ____.
interferes with one’s ability to function
Jillian is a single mother of two who constantly feels stress because she feels that she cannot accomplish all the tasks, errands, and work that she has to do. Which stress management technique might be most helpful to Jillian?
time management
Jane Elliot’s “brown eye/blue eye” demonstration with her third grade class in the 1970s showed ____.
how easy it is to create prejudice in children
Being the life-of-the-party would be most consistent with having the trait of ____.
extraversion
Jeremiah survived the tornado that recently hit Joplin, Missouri. He has experienced a ____.
catastrophe
Obsessions are ____, while compulsions are ____.
thoughts; behaviors
Individuals with personality disorders do not usually seek treatment on their own because ____.
they do not see anything wrong with their behavior
If you were a subject in the Solomon Asch study on conformity in the 1950s, you would have ____.
compared the lengths of lines along with other participants
The humanistic view of personality emphasizes ____.
individual choices
Primary appraisal refers to ____.
a person’s initial interpretation of an event
Jeanette believes she has leukemia, but her doctors can find no physical evidence to suggest she has this blood disorder. Jeanette is most likely to be diagnosed with ____.
illness anxiety disorder
Which 2 symptoms are associated with major depression?
change in sleep and appetite