50 Cards in this Set
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Reaction formation refers to the process by which people
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consciously express feelings that are the opposite of unacceptable unconscious impulses
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young teens are most likely to start smoking in order to
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facilitate their social acceptance
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individuals from individualist cultures are ___ likely to commit the fundamental attribution error than people of colectivistic cultures
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more
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according to the DVD, the psychopath under investigation was from what company
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canada
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mental health workers label behavior psychologically disordered when they judge it
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atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable
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a hormone that increases heart rate, BP, and blood sugar levels in times of emergency is:
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epinephrine
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the experience of multiple personalities is most likely to be characterized by:
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a massive dissociation of self from ordinary consciousness
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the general adaptation syndrome describes stages in the:
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body's responses to prolonged stress
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people tend to ___ their daily calorie intake and ___ their daily PA
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underestimate;overestimate
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the perception that one's fate is determined by luck reflects:
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an external locus of control
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the term psychotic disorders is most often used in contrast to the less debitation ___ disorders
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neurotic
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DSM-IV is widely used for
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classifying psychological disorders
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university students were observed to pull harder on a rope when they were pulling alone than when they thought three others were pulling with them on the same rope, this best illustrates
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social loafing
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broca's aphasics suffer difficulties in:
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producing speech
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as her professor distributed the math test to the class, Blair's heart started pounding and her palms began to sweat. These physiological reactions were activated by her ___nervous system
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sympathetic
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adina wants advice on how to cope with the stress of college life. She would be best advised to approach college with a sense of personal:
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control and optimism
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delusion of persecution are most common among those with ___ schizophrenia
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paranoid
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when a mild-mannered woman had an electrode implanted in her amygdala, she:
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developed more aggressive tendencies
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a generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by:
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a continuous state of tension, a apprehension, and autonomic nervous system arousal
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lymphocytes are...
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white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system
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residents of urban ghettos are especially likely to experience
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hypertension
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factor analysis has been used to identify the most basic:
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personality traits
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carl rogers suggested that the ___ is a central feature of personality
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self concept
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what percentage of individuals is Milgram's conformity experiment shocked people at the XXX level
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65%
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the university's psychology department created anew program that applies behavioral and medical knowledge to health and disease. state universy will clearly be offering a new degree in:
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behavioral medicine
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according to the social identity theory, personal self-esteem is related to:
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social identities
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kansa insists that her boyfriend's car accident resulted from carelessness. her explanation for her accident provides as ex of:
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dispositional attribution
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according to you DVD on the mind of the psychopath, how much likely is a psychopath likely to violently reoffend than a non psycho?
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four times more likley
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in the Stanford for prison experiment what job did one of the prisoners purse 14 yrs. after the experiment?
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prison psychologist
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in the stanford experiment, how long was the experiment supposed to run and how long did it actually run
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2 weeks, 6 days
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during the early psychosexual stages, the ID derives pleasure from distinct:
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erogenous zones
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according to your DVD on the mind of the psychopath normal individuals score around a 5 on the psychopath inventory; psychopaths score an excess of ___ on the same measure
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30
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the james lange theory of emotion states that:
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an emotion - arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both physiological arousal and the subjective experience of emotion
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according the your DVD on the mind of the psychopath, dr. hade suggest that traditional therapies used in the criminal justice system to rehabilitate prisoners
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are not effetive with psychopaths
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are not effetive with psychopaths
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involvement was taken too seriously resulting in unethical behavior
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what did the prisoners nick-name the most sadistic guard?
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john wayne
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according to the medical model, psychological disorders are:
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sicknesses that need to be diagnosed and cured
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friedman and rosenman referred to the competitive, hard-driving, impatient, and easily angered individuals as ___ personalities
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type A
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scratchers theory of emotion, participants injected with epinephrine prior to spending time with either a happy or irritated person support the idea that
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our experience of emotion depends on how we interpret bodily arousal
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in the standford prison experiment, what was the reaction of one guar 2 weeks after the experiment
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they were shocked with their level or role playing
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which branch of psychology is most directly concerned with the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another?
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social psychology
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in which type of disorder is a person's speech likely to e so full of unrelated words and phrases that it could be characterized as a "world salad"
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schizophrenia
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the defense mechanism by which people disguise threatening impulses by attributing them to others is called
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projection
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who suggested that we feel sorry because we cry...afraid because we tremble
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william james
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projective tests are most closely associated with the ___ prespctive
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psychoanalytic
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the foot -in-door phenomenon refers to the tendency to:
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comply with a large request if one has previously complied with a small request
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a condition in which an individual is overexcited, hyperactive, and widely optimist
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a manic episode
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a psychotherapist instructs Dane to relax, close his eyes. and state aloud whatever thought come to mind no matter how tribal or absurd. The therapists is using a technique called:
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free association
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the idea that anger is reduced through aggressive acton or fantasy is knows as
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catharsis hypotheses
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realistic group convict theory proposes
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competition is the root of prejudice and discrimination
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PSY 101: Exam 4