The tendency to be less likely to help or intervene in a situation, if there are more people around.
What is the bystander effect? (diffusion of responsibility)
100
Something that occurs when people place more emphasis on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing facts objectively.
What is groupthink?
100
One of the things that can cause stress.
What is a stressor, major life change, daily hassle, pressure, uncontrollability, etc.
100
Name two of the universally recognized facial expressions.
What are anger, fear, disgust, happiness, surprise, and sadness?
200
The three components of emotion.
What are conscious awareness, labelling, or physiological arousal?
200
The take-away lessen from Milgram's shock experiment.
What is the effect of an authority figure on obedience?
200
One of the factors affecting whether or not we will help.
What is group size, time pressures, location, or similarity?
200
The tendency for juries to expect the prosecution to have evidence as sophisticated and complete as one may see in tv shows or movies.
What is the CSI effect?
200
A person who needs or seeks out more arousal than the average person.
What is a sensation seeker?
300
A stage of Maslow's hierarchy of needs that involves feeling close or connected to other people.
What are belongingness needs?
300
The sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person's behavior does not correspond to that person's impression or beliefs.
What is cognitive dissonance?
300
The tendency for the first impression we have about a person to persist over time, even in the face of evidence to the contrary.
What is the primacy effect? (related to impression formation)
300
The first stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is alarm?
300
The two types of coping outlined in Stress and Health.
What are problem-focused and emotion-focused coping?
400
How we experience an emotional reaction, according to James-Lange theory.
What is a stimulus that leads to a physiological reaction, that leads to the labeling of the emotion?
400
The tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors and underestimate situational factors.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
400
The tendency of people to like other people who like them in return.
What is reciprocity of liking?
400
The final stage of the general adaptation syndrome that is related to decreased immunity, tiredness, and burnout.
What is exhaustion?
400
Three of the factors that promote wellness.
What are exercise/healthy eating, social connectedness, good sleep hygiene, taking time to enjoy yourself or for self-care, time management skills, coping skills.
500
Although Maslow believed that now all people reach self-actualization and transcendence, he did describe these moments when we are completely fulfilled.
What are peak experiences?
500
Your friend asks you for a ride to the airport, and once you agree, adds that it will be at 6am and that they would like to stop by breakfast on the way.
What is an example of the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
500
a lessening of one's sense of personal identity and responsibility, particularly in groups or crowds that offer a sense of anonymity
What is deindividuation?
500
The three components of the MacDonald Triad.
What are bedwetting, setting fires, and hurting/torturing animals.
500
Two of the possible motivations discussed for altruism.
What are reciprocity norms, social responsibility norm, empathy, commitment to justice principle?