Social Psychology
The mental discomfort experienced when holding two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
This number is the magical number in memory.
What is the number 7?
A person's attitude towards treatment has little effect on the results of the treatment
False. The placebo affect proves people influence themselves.
A systematic, often unconscious, inclination or tendency to favor or disfavor something?
What is bias?
The tendency for individuals to be less likely to help in an emergency when others are present, often due to diffusion of responsibility.
What is the Bystander Effect?
A memory technique where you recall information by anchoring it to familiar locations.
What is the method of loci?
There are many specialties in the field of psychology.
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A marketing strategy using famous, well-known, or popular figures to promote products, services, or causes.
What is Celebrity Endorsement?
The tendency for people to exert less effort when working in a group compared to when working alone.
What is Social Loafing?
What is Sensory Memory?
Most human subjects come from introductory Psych class
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Joining a popular trend, activity, or cause that attracts growing support.
What is Bandwagon?
Ignoring or dismissing new evidence that conflicts with existing beliefs, a key way of resolving cognitive dissonance.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Repeating a phone number to yourself uses this memory process.
What is rehearsal?
Social theroy
what psychological theory is centered on learning through interaction and observation?
The lack of, or the problem of, seemingly unlimited wants in a world with limited resources.
What is Scarcity?
The complex, often invisible, forces, interactions, and behaviors that occur within a group.
What is this memory trick called Remember, Recall, Retain.
What are the three R's of memory
Attachment theory
what theory focuses on the influence of an early childhood experience on future criminal behavior
A cognitive bias in behavior where the psychological pain of losing is about twice as intense as the pleasure.
What is Loss Aversion?