You Had Me at Attribution
The tendency to overestimate personality traits and underestimate situational factors
➡️ What is the fundamental attribution error?
Adjusting behavior to match a group standard
➡️ What is conformity?
The idea that opposites attract is largely false; instead, we prefer this
➡️ What is similarity?
Behavior intended to harm another person
➡️ What is aggression?
A response to perceived threats or challenges
➡️ What is stress?
The body’s immediate fight-or-flight response system
➡️ What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Efforts to manage stress directly by changing the situation
➡️ What is problem-focused coping?
Explaining your own failure due to circumstances but others’ failure due to personality
➡️ What is the actor-observer bias?
Following direct orders from an authority figure
➡️ What is obedience?
The theory that relationships are maintained by weighing costs and benefits
➡️ What is social exchange theory?
Helping behavior without expectation of reward
➡️ What is altruism?
Short-term stress that can be beneficial
➡️ What is acute stress?
Hormone released during stress by the adrenal glands
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
➡️ What is cortisol?
Efforts to regulate emotional responses to stress
➡️ What is emotion-focused coping?
Attributing success to internal factors and failure to external ones
➡️ What is the self-serving bias?
Reducing effort when working in a group
➡️ What is social loafing?
The passionate, intense early stage of love
➡️ What is passionate love?
Reduced likelihood of helping when others are present
➡️ What is the bystander effect?
Long-term, persistent stress
➡️ What is chronic stress?
Hans Selye’s three-stage model of stress response
➡️ What is the General Adaptation Syndrome?
Reducing stress through exercise, meditation, or relaxation
➡️ What are behavioral coping strategies?
This 20th-century concept describes the negative effects of rapid social change and overload on individuals.
➡️ Answer: What is future shock?
The process of forming impressions about others
➡️ What is person perception?
When group members prioritize harmony over critical thinking
➡️ What is groupthink?
A deep, long-term attachment characterized by trust
➡️ What is companionate love?
The frustration-aggression hypothesis links aggression to this
➡️ What is frustration?
Major life changes requiring adjustment
➡️ What are life change stressors?
The exhaustion stage occurs when this is depleted
➡️ What are bodily resources?
The ability to bounce back from stress
➡️ What is resilience?
A mental shortcut used to make quick judgments about people
➡️ What is a heuristic?
Improved performance in the presence of others
➡️ What is social facilitation?
The tendency to like people we see frequently
➡️ What is the mere exposure effect?
Helping behavior increases when people feel this toward others
➡️ What is empathy?
Daily annoyances that build up over time
➡️ What are hassles?
Illness caused or worsened by stress
➡️ What are psychosomatic illnesses?
A personality type associated with high stress and heart disease
➡️ What is Type A personality?