Memory, Personality & Mood
This is the amount of information the average short-term memory is able to hold at one time.
what is 7 items?
This psychologist is known for creating the BoBo Doll experiment.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This theorist believed personality develops through childhood conflicts between desires and social pressure.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This term describes changing behaviour or beliefs to match a group.
What is conformity?
Psychologists use this explanation to describe why many people feel sad on “Blue Monday,” the third Monday of January.
What is the impact of reduced daylight and post-holiday stress lowering mood-related hormones?
This personality disorder involves failing to develop a superego and showing no guilt after immoral or criminal behaviour.
What is psychopathic personality?
This was the main purpose of the BoBo Doll experiment.
What is to test whether children learn aggressive behaviour by watching adult models?
This is the Erikson stage a 16-year-old is in when she struggles to understand who she is.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
These are rules that guide how members of a group should behave.
What are norms?
Milgram’s experiment revealed this about obedience to authority.
What is that people obey even against their morals?
This is the percentage of Canadians who experience Seasonal Affective Disorder, and the percentage who require treatment.
What are 9% experiencing SAD and 2% requiring treatment?
This describes the basic process children went through during the BoBo Doll experiment.
What is watching a model (aggressive, calm, or none) and then being observed with the same doll to see if they imitated behaviour?
According to Maslow, these must be satisfied before someone reaches self-actualization.
What are basic and psychological needs?
This concept describes expectations influencing a person’s performance.
What is the Pygmalion Effect?
This two-step defence mechanism is shown when someone blames a teacher for their own procrastination and insists the teacher “hates them.”
What is projection?
These colours are commonly linked to feelings of confidence, authority, and power.
What are gold, black, red, and royal blue?
This was the outcome of the BoBo Doll experiment and its connection to behaviour theories.
What is that children imitated the aggressive model, showing behaviour can be learned from observation and the environment (behaviour modification)?
This Erikson stage describes a 40-year-old who feels they aren’t contributing meaningfully to society.
What is Generativity vs. Stagnation?
This term refers to learning behaviour by watching and imitating others.
What is observational learning?
This prison study showed how situations and assigned roles can drastically alter behaviour.
What is the Zimbardo Prison Experiment?
These are the three components of the unconscious mind, along with the role each part plays.
What are the id (drives/desires), the ego (decision-making), and the superego (moral conscience)?
This is how the BoBo Doll findings connect to other psychology topics such as colour, music, behaviour issues, and abnormal behaviour.
What is that all these topics show behaviour is shaped by the environment:what we see, hear, and experience?
This belief separates Erikson’s theory from Freud’s.
What is that development continues throughout life?
This psychological concept explains why a student joins the majority even though they know the group is wrong, and it originates from a famous study.
What is conformity, shown in the Asch Experiment?
This case involved two girls found living with wolves in India in 1920.
What is the case of Amala and Kamala?