Social Psychology
A local car insurance company uses a cute and cuddly kitten to convince people to buy their insurance. Their commercials say nothing about the actual quality of service that they employ. What type of persuasive technique are they using?
What is peripheral route processing?
What cultures as a whole tend to have the greatest rates of conformity?
What are collectivist cultures?
This personality trait is associated with high levels of curiosity and interest, with these people enjoying new experiences and preferring to be life-long learners.
What is Openness?
These are the 3 criteria used to determine the line between normal and abormal.
What are deviance, dysfunction, and distress?
This type of therapy focuses on healing communication and interaction styles within the family unit.
What is family therapy?
How many major components does any attitude have? And what are they?
3? And what are thinking, behaving, and feeling?
This study was created to find out how many people would obey an authority figure when directly ordered to violate their own ethical standards.
What is the Milgrim Experiment?
Kira went to a therapist after her mom worried she might be getting depressed. Her therapist, during the consultation, mentioned that he would be having Kira dig back into her history and unearth tidbits of her subconscious to help heal the open wounds of childhood. Kira thought that sounded a little intense. Kira's therapist is likely endorse this psychological perspective of personality and mental health.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
Emily is experiencing anxiety. Her psychiatrist attributes her symptoms to a chemical imbalance. What approach informs Emily's psychiatrist's behavior?
What is the biological/ biomedical approach?
Gabriel has been in therapy for over a year now. His therapist has been working tirelessly at helping Gabriel identify distortions in thinking and helping him hone the ability to challenge his emotional thoughts and to reframe into more positive, rational ones. Gabriel is likely seeing a therapist with a specialization in this.
What is cognitive therapy?
A state of tension that occurs when someone's attitude does not match their behavior.
What is cognitive dissonance?
In the elevator "study" we watched in class, what factor-- over time-- increased the likelihood that the participant would conform to turning around to stand backwards in the elevator?
What is increasing size of the group?
Kignon is jovial, energetic, and likes to be the center of attention. Kignon, more than likely, scores high on this personality trait.
What is extraversion?
Lila (18 yo) has just been recently diagnosed with ADHD, a disorder that is much less easily detected in females. She feels, after listening to a podcast on the trauma-based roots of some types of ADHD, that her ADHD comes from the pressure and lack of acceptance that she feels at home. Lila believes that her ADHD is resulting from this potential source.
What is socio-cultural?
Kayu's therapist is helping him address his anxiety disorder that is characterized by frequent spells of panic that come on without warning. Kayu's therapist is likely treating him for this disorder.
What is panic disorder?
In a crowded restaurant someone falls out of their chair and appears to be having a seizure. No one gets up to help. According to Darley and Latane, what is the source of this inaction?
What is the bystander effect and "diffusion of responsibility"?
These are some of the reasons the textbook outlined that people are likely to obey authority (even if they don't approve of what is being asked).
What are trust and fear?
Factor analysis based upon this hypothesis statistically analyzed 18,000 words to determine clusters of personality traits for the Big 5.
What is the Lexical Hypothesis?
The DSM is an acronym for the book of Psychological Disorders called this.
What is The Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel, Version 5?
Psychoanalysis is a type of therapy designed by this famous person.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Cameron (age 11) tells his friends that he has a crush on their classmate Shabrielle because Shabrielle liked and wanted to hang out with Cameron first. This example illustrates the principle of attraction known as:
What is reciprocity of liking?
This is the approximate percentage of participants in the Milgrim study who were willing to give lethal electric shocks because someone in a white lab coat told them to do it.
65%
Despite the fact that Mayuri had a traumatic and challenging childhood, Mayuri's therapist seems hopeful and encouraging that Mayuri will guide her own healing from start to finish, as humans are highly motivated and capable of finding and achieving healing and creating lives of meaning and purpose. Mayuri's therapist endorses what perspective of personality and mental health?
Brakia has been experiencing feelings of hopelessness, doesn't find pleasure in anything, and has felt depressed for over 6 months now. She often has trouble focusing, has lost most of her appetite, and when she is not at work, you can find her sleeping. Brakia's doctor will likely diagnose her with
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
What is human choice?