behavior Flashcards
Factitious disorder
Fake disease imposed on another. Not purposefully making someone sick . Treated with gentle confrontation
Socially encapsulated therapist
Generalizes based on race or culture
Criterion contamination
When you have information that messes up fair ratings.
Manage tantrums through
Extinction
Diuresis
Uncontrollable urge to pee
Mediated generalization
Another name for stimulus generalization
Response generalization
Opperant. Conditioning.. Person displaying responses similar to those that have been reinforced
Denial
Most primitive defense mechanism. Refusal to accept the existence of the mental content
Repression
Making the conscious unconscious. Defense mechanisms have the purpose of keeping certain mental contents out of consciousness
Protection
Involves attributing ones own impulse to someone else.. As in paranoia
Reaction formation
Transforming an urge into its opposite
Conjunctive task
Overall functioning is affected by the least effective member
Social loafing
People work less hard in a group that being rated individually
James Lange theory
My heart is racing so I must be afraid
Reciprocity hypothesis
People like those who like them
Barnum effect
Find personal meaning in something that could apply to anyone
Idiosyncrasy credits
Initially conforming to group norms