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Limerick Challenge
100
This is our definition of ourselves, built from a variety of schemas.
What is a self-concept?
100

This type of conformity requires both a change in behavior and belief.

What is acceptance?

100

This is the force which makes us feel less personally responsible for our actions when in a group.

What is deindividuation?

100
This branch of psychology is focused on making groups and organizations effective, particularly employees and management.
What is Industrial/Organizational Psychology?
100

While it may involve our shared biology,

that tends more towards the field of phrenology. 

Instead we measure the self 

and unique groups (like the Celts),

for we say we study __________________.

What is social psychology?

200
When we compare ourselves against our peers, we are engaging in this.
What is self-evaluation?
200

This variable influences the power of conformity by virtue of having all opinions be the same.

What is unanimity?

200

When in groups of like-minded people, we have this tendency to become more extreme in our shared opinions.

What is group polarization?

200
This branch of psychology is a dual function as both a counselor and a researcher for athletes and athletic organizations.
What is sports psychology?
200
When too many people make me corrode, 

I'm worn, I can't keep my eyes on the road! 

I must truly confide, 

please let me outside! 

I'm suffering from attentional ____________.

What is overload?
300
This is the tendency to view ourselves favorably, attributing our successes to internal factors and our failures to external factors.
What is a self-serving bias?
300
Milgram studied obedience to authority by having participants "teach" a "student" by having them answer these types of problems.
What is math?
300
When groupthink begins to set in, we have this tendency to view all outsiders as evil or beyond redemption.
What is stereotyping of opponents?
300
This branch of psychology is focused on designing products to maximize their effective use.
What is Human Factors?
300
My boss keeps making me weary, 

I think he wants to replace, clearly! 
Instead, he leads with our problems
and asks ME how to solve them,
he clearly is using ____________________.

What is Y theory?
400
When we compare ourselves against our past or future selves, we are engaging in this practice.
What is self-enhancement?
400

This is the phenomenon which accounts for why people tend to slack off when contributing to a single goal with a team of others.

What is social loafing?

400

This is a belief that a group and its members have a particular trait, based upon their membership to that group (rather than an actual observation of that trait).

What is a stereotype?

400
Law Psychology researchers often rely on these panels of participants to study the effects of evidence and arguments in determining verdicts.
What are mock juries?
400

My hockey team is best in the rink, 

and we think all of the other teams stink,
we never'll be cheatin',
unless we're being beaten,
we seem to be suffering ___________.

What is Groupthink?

500

This is the tendency to view the successes of others as resulting from environmental factors, and their failures as resulting from internal factors.

What is the fundamental attribution bias?

500

Sherif studied conformity by having his participants make judgments about how far a dot of light had moved, when in fact it hadn't. These perceptions of movement are the result of this phenomenon.

What is autokinetic?

500
When innundated with generalizations, we tend to internalize them. These internalized generalizations influence our behaviors, even if we don't believe they are true. This effect is called:
What is stereotype threat?
500
Environmental psychology focuses on this major problem in cities.
What is crowding?
500

At first I sought an alliance,
but now I feel so me-oh-my-us,
I can't seem to stop,
when they sit, I too plop,
I cannot keep from _____________.

What is compliance?