Personality
People who often prefer quiet environments and time alone to recharge are called this.
What are introverts?
Piaget studied this area of psychology.
What is cognitive development?
Pavlov’s dogs learned to associate this sound with food.
What is a bell?
The tendency to follow a group even when you disagree is called this.
What is conformity?
A prediction that can be tested in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Freud believed this part of personality balances the id and superego.
What is the ego?
Genetics, brain chemistry, and hormones are examples of these influences on mental health.
What are biological factors?
The debate about whether behaviour is shaped more by genetics or environment is called this.
What is nature vs. nurture?
This occurs when people are less likely to help because others are present.
What is the bystander effect?
Researchers use this process to ensure participants understand the study before agreeing.
What is informed consent?
Which area of psychology deals with the individualized examination of a patient's inner mind and the unconscious?
What is psychoanalysis?
The psychological field that studies how individuals change and remain the same over the lifespan is called this.
Developmental Psychology
This type of conditioning involves learning through rewards and punishments.
What is operant conditioning?
In a crowd, people may feel less personally responsible because of this concept.
What is diffusion of responsibility?
This effect occurs when participants improve because they believe they are receiving treatment.
What is the placebo effect?
According to Freud, this part of personality follows the pleasure principle.
What is the id?
Family environment, stress, and trauma are examples of these influences on mental health.
What are environmental factors?
This branch of psychology studies physical and biological causes of behaviour.
What is physiological psychology?
Blaming another group for society’s problems is this.
What is scapegoating?
This is the variable in an experiment that is purposely changed or manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
Maslow believed this level of needs must be met before self-esteem and self-actualization.
What are basic physiological and safety needs?
During this Piaget stage, teenagers can think about abstract ideas, future possibilities, and solve problems logically.
What is the Formal Operational Stage?
This psychological concept refers to resisting an immediate reward in order to receive a larger or better reward later.
What is delayed gratification?
This error happens when people overestimate personality traits and underestimate situations when judging others.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
In this type of experiment, neither the participants nor the researchers know who is in the control group.
What is a double-blind experiment?