Quiz #4 Test #4

Front 1

Preconscious

Back 1

Thoughts and feelings NOT aware of but can be brought to awareness

Front 2

Id (Birth to 1 year)

Back 2

Primitive and fully unconscious, contains life and death instincts, pleasure

Front 3

Superego (Conscience)

Back 3

Represents our sense of morality and how we ought to behave

Front 4

Denial

Back 4

Refusing to accept or acknowledge consciously the existence of danger or a threatening situation

Front 5

Rationalization

Back 5

Making socially acceptable excuses for one's faults

Front 6

Reaction Formation

Back 6

Behaving in a way that is the extreme opposite of unacceptable urges or desires

Front 7

Regression

Back 7

Retreating to a behavior pattern characteristic of an earlier stage of development as a way of coping with a stressor

Front 8

Oral Stage (Birth to 1 year)

Back 8

Pleasure from mouth

Front 9

Anal Expulsive Personality

Back 9

Messy, irresponsible, slob, rebels openly

Front 10

Oedipus Complex

Back 10

Child's desire to have sexual relations with opposite parent (boys with mothers, girls with fathers)

Front 11

Personality Assessment

Back 11

Observation, Interviews, Rating Scales

Personality Inventories

Projective Tests

Front 12

Structured Interviews

Back 12

Planned ahead interviews

Front 13

Halo Effect

Back 13

Tendency for our overall evaluation to be influenced by one or few positive or negative traits

Front 14

Projective Tests

Back 14

Rorschach Inkblot Test

Thematic Apperception Test (20 black and white pictures)

Front 15

Psychoanalysis

Back 15

Bringing repressed material into consciousness and help patient work through unconscious conflicts

Front 16

Free Association

Back 16

Learn about what they're thinking or feeling

Front 17

Transference

Back 17

Redirection of feelings toward other people

Front 18

Behavior Therapy

Back 18

Helps change self-destructing behaviors (replace bad habits with good ones)

Front 19

Participant Modeling

Back 19

Therapists demonstrate behavior and then help patients do the same behavior

Front 20

Agoraphobia

Back 20

Intense fear of experiencing a panic attack in public and unable to escape or get help

Front 21

Panic Disorder

Back 21

Experience of recurring and unpredictable panic attacks

Front 22

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Back 22

Chronic Excessive Worry

Front 23

Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Back 23

Fear and avoidance of any social or performance where one might embarrass themselves

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Back 24

Anxiety disorder in which a person has a reoccurring obsessions and compulsions

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Major Depressive Disorder

Back 25

Feelings of great sadness, despair, hopelessness, and loss of ability to experience pleasure

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Bipolar Disorder

Back 26

Severe mood swing between periods of euphoria/mania and periods of depression

Front 27

Types of Bipolar

Back 27

Bipolar 1: High manic episodes that lead to self-destructive behaviors

Bipolar 2: Major depression with mild manic episodes

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Schizophrenia Symptoms

Back 28

Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized behavior

Front 29

Histronic Personality Disorder

Back 29

Intense need for attention, shallow, demanding, attractive, and sexually seductive

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Borderline Personality Disorder

Back 30

Extreme swings from idealization to demonization. Unstable emotions and fear of abandonment

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Antisocial

Back 31

Disregards others feelings, manipulative, selfish

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Primacy Effect

Back 32

Tendency to evaluate someone based on our first impression of the person

Front 33

Attribution

Back 33

Process of explaining our behavior of others

Front 34

Situational Attribution/External Attribution

Back 34

Environmental/External factor is involved in cause of behavior

(Blaming others for our failures)

Front 35

Dispositional Attribution/Internal Attribution

Back 35

Characteristics, trait, attitude of person involved in cause of behavior

(Taking credit for our successes)

Front 36

Self-Serving Bias

Back 36

Results from needing to protect our self-concept and manage unpleasant emotions. Positive self image

Front 37

Actor-Observer Effect

Back 37

Attributing our faults to external factors, and other peoples faults to them

Front 38

Fundamental Attribution Error

Back 38

Tendency to overestimate the degree to which personal characteristics of an individual are the cause of an event

Front 39

Conformity

Back 39

Behaving in ways that are consistent with group norms or expectations of others (generally unspoken)

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Foot In The Door Technique

Back 40

Asks for small request and try to follow with a bigger request

Front 41

Door in the Face Technique

Back 41

Large unreasonable request and small request follows

Front 42

Low Ball Technique

Back 42

Obtaining a persons initial agreement to purchase an item at a lower price before revealing hidden costs that raise ultimate price

Front 43

Social Loafing

Back 43

Putting in less effort when working as group than when working alone

Front 44

Groupthink

Back 44

The tendency for members of a decision making group to be focused more on preserving group solidarity (cohesiveness) than on critically examining the issues on hand

Front 45

Social Roles

Back 45

Socially defined roles that are expected of a person occupying a particular social position

Front 46

Cognitive Dissonance

Back 46

Unpleasant emotions we experience when our attitudes are in conflict or inconsistent with our behavior

Front 47

Factors that affect Persuasion

Back 47

1. Source

2. Audience

3. The Message

4. The Medium

Front 48

Bystander Effect

Back 48

The idea that the more witnesses there are at an emergency, the less likely any of them will help

Front 49

Diffusion of Responsibility

Back 49

A person is less likely to take responsibility for action when others are present

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Prejudice

Back 50

Attitudes towards others based on their gender, religion, race, or membership

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Discrimination

Back 51

Behavior towards others based on their gender, religion, race, or membership in a particular group

Front 52

Realistic Conflict Theory

Back 52

Competition over scarce resources

Front 53

In-Groups and Out-Groups

Back 53

In-groups - you fit in strongly

Out-groups - you don't fit in

Us versus them mentality