This person used psychodynamics as the foundation of his theory of personality.
Who is Freud?
100
The uncomfortable state that occurs when behavior and attitudes do not match and that can be resolved through attitude change.
What is cognitive dissonance?
100
A system for classification of psychological disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
100
The component of Freud’s personality theory that is the self that others see.
What is Ego?
100
Unfair behavior based on stereotyping and prejudice.
What is discrimination?
200
The component of Freud’s personality theory containing primitive drives and present at birth.
What is the Id?
200
A prejudgment, usually negative, of another person on the basis of his or her membership in a group.
What is prejudice?
200
A disorder characterized by excessive anxiety and worry that is not correlated with particular objects or situations.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
200
The component of Freud’s personality theory that internalizes society’s rules for right and wrong, or the conscience.
What is Superego?
200
A defense mechanism where negative emotions are redirected from the real source to another target.
What is Displacement?
300
A defense mechanism where unacceptable urges are redirected into more prosocial channels.
What is sublimation?
300
Study about conformity where participants were asked to match a reference line to one of three comparison lines.
What is the Asch Study?
300
A clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs that is associated with distress, disability, deviance, or danger.
What is a psychological disorder?
300
The belief that you can handle a challenging situation and obtain future rewards.
What is self-efficacy?
300
This was used to identify the Big Five Theory of Personality.
What is factor analysis?
400
The Big Five Theory of Personality includes…
What is What is OCEAN?
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
400
A study about obedience where it is hypothesized that when personal ethics come into conflict with demands from an authority, authority usually wins.
What is the Milgram Study?
400
_____ is the ratio of individuals affected by a psychological disorder.
What is 1/4 or 25%
400
Simplified sets of traits associated with membership in a group or category.
What are stereotypes?
400
Conducted by Zimbardo, this is a study where participants were assigned either guard or prisoner and quickly adopted behaviors consistent with these roles.
What is the Stanford Prison Study?
500
This is a judgment of the value of the self.
What is self-esteem?
500
Judgments about the cause of a person’s behavior.
What are attributions?
500
Individuals with GAD show more ________ activity in their brain that individuals who do not have GAD.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
500
A type of flawed decision making in which a group does not question its decisions critically.
What is groupthink?
500
A defense mechanism where excuses are made for anxiety-producing behavior.