Experiments
Solomon Asch set up an experiment in which eight people were shown a 10-inch line and then had to choose the line that matched it in length from a choice of three other lines. What was Ash Studying?
Conformity
Expected behavior associated with particular social positions are called?
Roles
An exaggerated, unrealistic fear of specific situation, activity or object.
Phobia
Id, Ego and Superego are all part of the whose theory on the structure of ones personality?
Sigmund Freud
A chemical substance in the nervous system that helps with pain, pleasure and memory.
Endorphins
What study saw young men readily assume roles of prison guards and prisoners?
Stanford Prison Experiment
This disorder is also known as multiple personality disorder.
Dissociability Identity Disorder (DID)
A disorder characterized by intense but unstable relationships, a fear of abandonment by other people, an unrealistic self image and emotional volatility.
Borderline Personality Disorder
What is the definition of Psychology?
Study of behavior and mental process
A process where people learn by observing a behavior of a another person or a model.
Observational Learning
Milgram did a study that required teachers to shock a person in the next room if they answered a question incorrectly. What was this experiment actually testing?
Obedience
Rules that regulate social life like laws.
Social Norms
Dopamine is the neurotransmitter that is believed to be responsible for which mental disorder?
schizophrenia
Unconditioned stimulus, Unconditioned response, conditioned Stimulus and conditioned response are all part of what kind of conditioning?
Classical Conditioning
If someone is sleeping and stops breathing then gasps far air which causes them to awaken then most likely they have.
Sleep Apnea
When someone is in trouble a crowd of people will often fail to take action or call for help because why?
Bystander apathy, Diffusion of Responsibility
Tendency for all members of a group to think alike.
Groupthink
Anxiety disorder where someone experiences intense fear and feeling of impending doom.
Panic Disorder
A ___________ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another
Correlation
What is the definition of Latent Learning?
Learning demonstrated at later time.
The theory that humans feel the need to explain their own as well as others behaviors.
Attribution Theory
A disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self importance and self absorption.
Narcissistic
A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena is called a?
Theory
A chemical substance that is released by a transmitting neuron at the synapse and that alters the activity of a receiving neuron.
Neurotransmitter