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