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| Study of ow we are influencced by social situations |
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| Tendency to exert less effort when pooling efforts |
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The more people there are the less likely it is for someone to help.
More likely to help if:
We notice the incident
Interpret it as an emergency
Decide it is our own responsibility
If not in a hurry
If deserving to be helped and similar
Good mood |
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| Diffusion of responsibility |
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| Th more people present the less likely one is to help |
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| How you understand personal traits of others |
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| Fundamental attribution error |
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| we tend to over estimate th e influence of personality and tend to underestiate influence of situation |
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| Loss of self awareness and self constraint due to situations that foster arousal |
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| The tendency for a group of like minded people to be more extreme in opinion after discussion |
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| we favor and are pursuaded more by our own group |
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| when our tendency for agreement overrides realistic appraisal of alternitives, doesntlook at all alternatives |
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| a belief and feeling that predisposes us to respond in a particular manner to object,people, and events |
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| set of expectations about a social position defining how those in the position ought to behave |
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| How attitude affects behavior |
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| Attitude affects behavior only 10% of the time. Behavior affects attitude |
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| Cognitive dissonance theory |
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| when we feel uncomfortable when there are inconsistencies between our attitudes and behaviors |
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| a concept or framework that helps us organize our world |
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| te most typical example of a schema |
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| an over generalized belief about a group of people |
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| when a prediction influences behavior and increases the likelihood that the prediction becomes true |
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| an attitude toward a group and its members; involves stereotypical beliefs |
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| an example of desplaced aggression toward a person or group due to frustration |
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| ones overall pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting |
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| the difference of whether one is born with characteristics or whether they are learned |
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| Two goals of personality theory |
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1)describe and understand personalities to better understand human conditions (scientific)
2)for clinical therapy (clinical application) |
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| an individuals pattern of behaviors or veliefs that characterize that person |
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| Big 5 personality factors |
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1)emotional stability
2)extroversion
3)openness
4)agreeableness
5)conscientiousness |
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| Learned helplessness vs. personal control |
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| learned helplessness is passiveness from being unable to control a situation compared to being able to control ones enviroment. |
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| Internal vs external locus of control |
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| preception that one controls their own fate compared to one who thinks that outside forces control them |
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"Relax and say whatever comes to mind when I say a word"
"Relax and say whatever comes to your mind"
Ink blot test |
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| data driven personality inventory |
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| Sigmund Freud Psycholanalytic approach |
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| the unconscious mind is most of the brain. It has thoughts, feelings and memories that are not available to conscious reflection. |
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| the pleasure seeker/unedited unconstrained, wants immediate gratifaction. Babies are all Id |
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| tries to please both the id and the superego |
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| the conscience/internalized rules |
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| when you block out thoughts since they are too painful |
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| return to an earlier developmental stage in response to a traumatic stage |
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| refusing to acknowledge consciously the existence of danger or life threatening situations |
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| supplying a logical rational or socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an event |
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| rechanneling sexual energy into positive productive activities |
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| oral fixation, birth to 18 months |
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| anal retentive (18 months to 3 years), potty training |
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when one loves mom 3-6 years
oedipal complex |
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| no sex drive 6 years-puberty |
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Definition for psychological disorders
(4 requirements) |
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1) unusual for that persons culture
2)disturbing to that person
3)maladaptive
4)dange to others or self |
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| Diagnostic and statistic manul of mental disorders. Say nothing about the cause, but only the treatment |
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| published paper showing no difference in the mental health of gay and straight menn, leading to homosexuality being removed as a disorder |
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| Labeling disorders (pros and cons) |
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Pros: help develop a vocabulary
helps define disorders
Cons: self-fullfilling prophecy |
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| the extent to which a test measures what it is supposed to (accuracy) |
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| the extent to which a test yeilds consistent results (precision) |
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| random assignment of subjects into groups |
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| trace electrical activity electrodes can be placed outside brain or inside if animal |
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| series of x-rays that show structure of the brain |
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| radioactive glucose is picked up by Pet scanner to show function |
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| uses magnetic energy to produce images of structues of brain |
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| functional MRI uses MRI images taken quickly in time to map brain function |
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| Case studies of brain damage |
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| show what parts of the brain do what |
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dendrites:recieve signal
cell body: provides life support
axon:electrical part
axon terminal:sends neurotransmitters |
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| area between axon terminal of sending neuron and recieving neuron |
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| oldest part of brain. Lower back part of brain controls swallowing, breathing, arousal and sleeping |
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| lower back part of brain, helps with physical cordination, regulates posture and paying attention |
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| Interior of brain, controls eating,drinking, temperature, heart rate, blood pressure and sex |
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| inside the brain, controls longterm memory |
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| inside of brain, controls emotions |
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| inside of brain, sends incoming sensory messages where they are supposed to go |
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| involved with emotional expression, memory,and motivation |
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| motor cortex front part of brain |
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| sensory cortex top back of brain |
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| visual cortex back of brain |
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| auditory cortex, side of brain |
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| study of cognitive, physicla and social change throughout life |
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| the effect of knowledge or expectations about the world on your perceptions |
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| neural activity coming from the senses that are constructed into perceptions |
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| are located in the visual cortex and respond to features such as movement, shape, and angle. (Remember, the work by Hubel and Wiesel.) |
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| are located in the retina (not the thalamus). |
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