Stereotyping, Attitudes, & Groups
The inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people based on the groups they belong to
What is Discrimination?
The failure to offer help to people in need when others are around, when you fear social blunders, when you want to remain anonymous, and if you lose a benefit (among other reasons).
What is Bystander Intervention Effect?
Fear of a specific object or situation that is out of proportion with an actual threat; involves particular objects and situations
What is Specific Phobia?
Disorder characterized by a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and being consumed by self
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Treatment that provides support while improving social skills cost-effectively; done with others
What is Group therapy?
People’s tendency to behave in ways that confirm their own expectations or other people’s expectations
What is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
Psychological assessment measuring obedience by having subjects deliver shocks to someone who has answered a question incorrectly
What is Milgram's Experiment?
Mood disorder characterized by alternating periods of extremely depressed and mildly elevated moods
What is Bipolar II?
Psychological disorder that involves disruptions of memory for personal facts or loss of conscious awareness for a period of time
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
A treatment that uses a magnetic field to interrupt function in specific regions of the brain
What is Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?
The tendency for people to work less hard in a group than when working alone
What is Social Loafing?
The type of conformity that occurs if you refuse a large request, you are more likely to comply with a smaller request
What is Door-In-The-Face Compliance?
An anxiety disorder marked by fear of being in situations from which escape may be difficult or impossible
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
A personality disorder marked by disregard for and violation of the rights of others and by lack of remorse
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Treatment in which a therapist works with clients to help them change distorted thought patterns that produce maladaptive behaviors and emotions
What is Cognitive Therapy?
A state of reduced individuality, self-awareness, and attention to personal standards; this phenomenon may occur when people. are part of a group
What is Deindividualization?
The act of providing help when it is needed, with no apparent reward for doing so
What is Altruism?
A diffuse state of constant anxiety not associated with any specific object or event; people with this disorder are constantly anxious and worry incessantly about even minor matters
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A disorder that involves the occurrence of two or more distinct identities in the same individual
What is dissociative identity disorder (or multiple personality disorder)
Form of therapy used to treat borderline personality disorder, that combines behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and a mindfulness approach
What is Dialectical behavior therapy?
An uncomfortable mental state due to a contradiction between two attitudes or between an attitude and a behavior
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
People with similar attitudes, values, interests, backgrounds, personalities, and levels of attractiveness tend to like each other more than people who are dissimilar
What is Birds of a Feather phenomenon?
An anxiety disorder marked by fear of being in situations from which escape may be difficult or impossible
What is Agoraphobia?
A personality disorder characterized by disturbances in identity, in moods, and in impulse control; involves emotional instability
What is borderline personality disorder?
Treatment in which a therapist works with clients to help them gain insight about how their unconscious processes may be causing inner conflict and impairing daily functioning.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?