Attributions Dispositional Situational Dispositional Attribute a person behavior to personality Situational Attribute behavior to a situation external factors What is the fundamental attribution error and is it influenced by culture FAE Self situational factors others to personality Culture how people identify themselves use very individualism how culture is individualized Know that attitudes thoughts and behaviors may be influenced both by what other people do and by information Normative norm influencing people Informative You re influenced because of information Who was Stanley Milgram and what did he find The electroshocking experiment experimented on obedience to authority Authority People will adjust to authority What is the foot in the door phenomenon Ask small request to comply then they will comely James Lange theory of emotion Stimulus Perception Bodily Arousal Emotion Your emotion comes from how you react to something EX if you are in the woods and you see a bear your heart will race and you will begin to tremble This theory says that you will interpret your physical reactions and conclude that you are frightened Who was William James Explored the functions of consciousness emotion Developed theory of emotion o worked with Lange What does the amygdala do and what influence does it have on aggression Part of the brain influences people s conscious emotion feelings ability to act in planned ways based on feelings effects of prefrontal lobotomy According to Schachter What would happen if you injected participants with epinephrine prior to spending time with either a euphoric or an irritated person When you get injected they are going to be really happy epinephrine is an arousal Know that the hormone epinephrine raises physiological arousal Raises blood pressure heart rate blood sugar levels What types of lives predict Life Satisfaction according to our talk from Seligman The Pleasant Life consisting in having as many pleasures as possible and having the skills to amplify the pleasures The Good Life consists in knowing what your signature strengths are and then redrafting your work love friendship leisure and parenting to use those strengths to have more flow in life The Meaningful Life consists of using your signature strengths in the service of something that you believe is larger than you are What kind of estimates do people make regarding the amount of calories they consume and the amount of exercise they engage in Overestimate how much we exercise we assume that we lose calories but we don t Hypertension is most likely to afflict what class of people Low SES Lower income people What is the Type A personality and its relationship to health Very stressful organized likes to be on time stress level high heart disease Type C emotional keep everything inside cancer disease Hardiness healthy they view challenges as overcome How does personal control and optimism relate to wellbeing The more optimism the more health What is the sympathetic nervous system and its responsibilities Sympathetic increases arousal connected to fight or flight response blood goes to your feet What are lymphocytes cells in the body that provide defense the more stressed you are the less lymphocytes are produced causing you to get sick the stress hormone corticosteroid can suppress the number of lymphocytes in the immune system What are projective tests Ask participants respond to vague stimuli in ways that may reveal that subject s needs feelings and personality traits Where does the ID derive pleasure according to Freudian psychoanalysis ID what you want unconscious drives pleasure sex What is locus of control Belief that rewards either are or are not controllable by one s own efforts External Out of Control Internal Healthier You have control of fate What are defense mechanisms on Freud s theory and explain them Defense Mechanisms Our Mind Does Not Like Stress Repression keeping anxiety unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing threatening thoughts from becoming conscious she had to repress her aggressive thoughts about her same sex parents Displacement satisfying an impulse aggression with a substitute object someone who is frustrated with their boss at work may go home and kick their cat Reaction Formation reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feeling impulse or behavior being fake towards your feelings to another What are defense mechanisms on Freud s theory and explain them Sublimation The ability to take socially unacceptable impulses and consciously transform them into socially acceptable impulses Projection Kick the cat take feelings out on others reduces anxiety by attributing unacceptable impulses onto someone else Rationalization Get rid of the anxiety convincing yourself it isn t that bad parent punishes a child and later says to themselves that is was for their own good Regression movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress a child may begin to suck their thumb again if they spend a long time in hospital What is factor analysis and how has it been used Techniques used to describe and determine the number of components in a set of observed data Used in product management and operations research What is central to the humanist approach to personality Rogers Maslow humanist about love Maslow self actualization researching the best you can What characterizes a Type A personality Someone who is very organized and is very stressed likes being on time What types of schizophrenia exist and what are the common symptoms Catatonic Rigid muscle movements Paranoid Delusions grandeur think they re god Disorganized Word salad has no meaning they re emotionless Undifferentiated to many symptoms What is the medical model and how does it approach mental illness Useful thinking of abnormal psychological disorder Psychopathology Study of mental disorders What is multiple personality One body many personalities What characterizes generalized anxiety disorder Opposite of a phobia you don t know what anxiety you have What are the criteria listed in your book and in class for determining if something is psychological disorder Deviance Maladaptive behavior personal distress What are projective tests Rorschach inkblot Tests observing the response of someone when presented something ambiguous open to more than one interpretation What characterizes manic episodes Bipolar disease manic extreme happiness mania What is the DSM IV A diagnostic and statistical manual or