Psych Review

Front 1

ability to explain/ predict other people's behavior by recognizing their mental state

Back 1

theory of mind

Front 2

paying more attention to novel stimuli

Back 2

orienting reflex

Front 3

boilogically based tendencies to feel or act in certain ways

Back 3

temperment

Front 4

defense mechanisms

Back 4

rationalization, repression, reaction formation, denial, displacement, projection, sublimination

Front 5

disorder characterized by identity, affective, and impulse disturbances

Back 5

borderline personality disorder

Front 6

an emphatic approach to therapy that encourages personal growth through greater slef understanding

Back 6

client-centered therapy

Front 7

agree to a small request, more likely to agree to a bigger request

Back 7

foot in the door effect

Front 8

more likely to agree to smaller request after refuse larger one

Back 8

door in the face effect

Front 9

tendency for people to take credit for success and blame failure on external factors

Back 9

self-serving bias

Front 10

sense of self is the object of attention

Back 10

self awareness

Front 11

people behave in ways that confirm their own or others expectations

Back 11

self-fulfilling prophecy

Front 12

the perceptual incongruity that occurs when there is a contradiction between two attitudes or an attitude and a behavior

Back 12

cognitive dissonance

Front 13

altruistic towards family members

Back 13

kin selection

Front 14

failure to help by those who observe someone in need

Back 14

bystander intervention effect

Front 15

tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining behavior

Back 15

fundamental attribution error