psch
_____ Means helping another person for personal gain, such as to feel good, or avoid guilt
Egoism
_____ Is an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life
depression
Deficits in the functioning of the _____ are associated with aggression.
Frontal lobe
_____ refers to a psychological state in which a person's perceptions and thoughts are fundamentally removed from reality
Psychosis
_____ is based on a person's desire to be liked by a group
Question 2
____ refers to the impaired decision making that occurs in a team when making the right decision is less important than maintaining harmony
groupthink
The _____ was published In 1952 by the American psychiatric Association for the major classification of psychological disorders in the United States
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
Which of the following was formally called multiple personality disorder
Disassociative identity disorder
_____ is the most dramatic, least common, and most controversial disorder
Disassociative identity disorder
_____ involves a sudden loss of memory or change in identity
Dissociative disorders
All of the following are symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder EXPECT
Feeling emotionally charged
____ refers to the process by which we use social stimuli to form impressions of others
Person perspective
The tendency for a group decision to riskier than the average decision made by the individual group members is known as
Risky shift
According to _____, The most important predictor of relationship success is having both partners feel that each is doing his or her "fair share"
The investment model
The most common compulsion exhibited by individuals who have obsessive-compulsive disorder is excessive
cleansing
The tendency for observers to underestimate the impact of the external situation and overestimate the impact of inner traits when they seek explanations of another person's behavior is called
the fundamental attribution error
The volunteer participants and Solomon Asch's experiment unconformity conformed to group pressure to select the incorrect answer approximately _____ percent of the time
35
All of the following are symptoms of major depressive disorder EXCEPT
A history of manic episodes
Which of the following statements about panic disorder is FALSE
American men are twice as likely as American women to be diagnosed with panic disorder.
_____ is a psychological disorder characterized by guiltlessness, lawbreaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit
Antisocial personality disorder
_____ Is an OCD-related disorder that involves a distressing preoccupation with imagined or slight flaws in one's physical appearance
Body dysmorphic disorder
_____ Is an eating disordering which an individual, typically female, consistently follows a binge- and purge- eating pattern
Bulimia nervosa
_____ Is a psychological discomfort caused by too inconsistent thoughts
Cognitive dissonance
_____ is a depressive disorder in children who show persistent irritability and recurrent episodes of out-of-control behavior
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
______ Refers to rationalize in the amount of work we put into getting something by increasing its value
Effort justification
_____ is a common negative symptom of schizophrenia, which means the display of little or no emotion
Flat effect
____ is based on a person's desire to be liked by a group
Informational social influence
According to the Institute of mental health, The leading cause of disability in the United States is
Major depressive disorder
______ refers to a psychological state in which an individual feels overexcited and unrealistic optimistic
Mania
depressive disorders are _____, whereas bipolar disorder is _____
More common among women / equally common in men and women
The anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away and/or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to Prevent or produce some future situations is called
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
In a(n) _____, A person experiences recurrent, sudden onset of intense tear, often without warning and with no specific cause
Panic disorder
Dissociative disorders Often occur in individuals who shows signs of
Post-Traumatic stress disorder
____ is an unjustified negative attitude toward an individual based on the individual's membership in a group
Prejudice
_____ is a severe psychological disorder that is characterized by highly disordered, Psychotic thought process
Schizophrenia
_____ theory is Darrell bum's take on how behaviors influence attitudes.
Self-perception
_____ refers to the tendency to take credit for one's own successes and to deny responsibility for one's own failure
Self-serving bias
____ is the scientific of how people think about, influence, and relate to other people.
Social Psychology
The process by which individuals evaluate their thoughts,feelings,behaviors,and abilities in relation to others is know as
Social comparison
according to ____, social relationships involve an exchange of goods, the objective of which is to minimize costs and maximize benefits
Social exchange theory
_____ Refers to the way individuals to find themselves in terms of their group membership
Social identity
Which of the following theories explains why individuals like to think of their group as an in-group
Social identity theory
_____ Is an anxiety disorder in which an individual has an intense fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in public
Social phobia
______ is an individual's fast-acting, self-fulfilling fear of being judged based on a negative idea about his or her group
Stereotype threat
A ____ is a generalization about a group's s characteristics that does not consider any variations from one individual to another
Sterotype
When theoretical approach emphasizes the contributions of experiences, thoughts, emotions, and personality characteristics in explaining psychological disorders
The humanistic approach
Which individuals desire to have another person near and have a deep, caring affection for that person, they are displaying
The mere exposure effect
The Stanford prison experiment provides a dramatic example of how social situations in the roles we take on in life can influence
The self-serving bias
which of the following statements best defines conformity?
a change in a person's behavior to coincide more closely with a group standard
A fear becomes a phobia when
an individual will go to any length to avoid the object of the fear.
_____ is an eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation
anorexia nervosa
The process by which we come to understand the causes of others behavior is known as
attribution
The _____ Approach is evident in the medical model
biological
The _____ approach to psychological disorders primarily focuses on the brain, genetic factors, and neurotransmitter functioning as the sources of abnormality
biological
In the context of social influence, Solomon Asch's experiment demonstrates
conformity
The reduction in personal identity and erosion of the sense of personal responsibility when one is part of a group is known as
deindividuation
The _____ is a theory suggesting that preexisting conditions, such as genetic characteristics, personality dispositions, or experiences, put a person at risk of developing a psychological disorder.
diathesis-stress model
Drug companies commonly fund research that focuses on a(n) _____ model of psychological disorders.
disease
the tendency to favor ones own ethnic group over other groups is called
ethnocentrism
Deficits in the functioning of the _____ are associated with aggression.
frontal lobes
Attributions that include causes inside and specific to a person, such as his or her traits and abilities, are called
internal attributions
according to the attribution theory, attributions vary along which of the following dimensons?
internal/external causes
With respect to the three characteristics of abnormal behavior, when a behavior interferes with a person's ability to function effectively in the world, it is considered
maladaptive
A depressive disorder is classified as a(n) _____ disorder
mood
A classic series of experiments by Stanley Milgram demonstrated the profound effect of
obedience
____ are favorable views of the self that are not necessarilly rooted in reality.
positive illusions
_____ involves strong components of sexuality and infatuation, and is often predominant in the early part of a love relationship
romantic love
Depressed people tend to have fewer receptors of the neurotransmitters
serotonin and norepinephrine
The area of social psychology that explores how people select, interpret, remember, and use social information is called
social cognition
the effects of others on our behavior can take the form of ____, imitative behavior involving the spread of behavior, emotions, and ideas
social contagion
For a person to be diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) he or she must have experienced a significant depressive episode and depressed characteristics such as lethargy and hopelessness for at least
two weeks
_____ has the highest mortality rate of any psychological disorder
Anorexia nervosa
_____ Is a psychological disorder, commonly diagnosed in childhood, in which an individual exhibit one or more of the following symptoms: a lack of concentration, excitability, and impulsivity
Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder
_____ are people's opinions and beliefs about other people, objects, and ideas, and how they feel about the world
Attitudes
Genetic factors are stronger predictions of _____ than of _____
Bipolar disorder / depressive disorder
_____ Is characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, And of marked impulsivity beginning in early adulthood and present in various context
Borderline personality disorder
_____ is reflected in a person's conscious and openly shared attitude, which might be measured using a questionnaire, whereas _____ refers to attitudes that exist on a deeper, hidden level, thus they must be measured with a method that does not require awareness
Explicit racism / implicit racism
The _____ Is the over estimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or act the way we do
False consensus affect
When members of a group know something that that a person doesn't,the person will follow the group to be right. This explains the concept of
Herd instinct
Individuals with bull is nervosa tend to have ______ of perfectionism and _____ of self-sufficiency
High levels / low levels
The Americans with Disability Act
Made it illegal to discriminate against a person with a psychological disorder in the workplace when the person's condition does not prevent performance of the jobs essential functions
In attribution theory, the person who offers a casual explanation of the actors behavior is called the
Observer
_____ A recurrent thoughts, and are _____ recurrent behaviors
Obsessions / compulsions
The _____ of schizophrenia are marked by disorientation of an excess of normal function, whereas the _____ reflects social withdrawal, behavioral deficits, and the loss or decrease of normal functions
Positive symptoms / negative symptoms
Behavior that is meant to harm the social standing of another person through activities such as gossiping and spreading rumors is known as
Relational aggression
An important feature of optimal intergroup contact that involves working together on a shared goal is known ass
Task-oriented cooperation
The hormone that is typically implicated in aggressive behavior is
Testosterone
______ is a mood disorder that is characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania, an overexcited, unrealistically optimistic state
bipolar disorder
according to social exchange theory, the most important predictor of relationship sucess
equity