Behavioral Sciences Specific Review

Question 1

Maslow hierarchy of needs

Answer 1

Prioritizes  needs into five categories
Physiological
Safety and security 
Love and belonging
Self esteem
Self actualization

Question 2

Self esteem

Answer 2

Our evaluation of ourselves

Question 3

Material culture

Answer 3

Physical items one associates with a given group

Question 4

Group think

Answer 4

Tendency to make decisions based on ideas and solutions that arise within the group without considering outside ideas

Question 6

Prejudice

Answer 6

An irrationally based attitude prior to actual experience

Question 8

Symbolic culture

Answer 8

The ideas associated with a cultural group

Question 11

Self fulfilling prophecy

Answer 11

The phenomenon of a stereotype creating an expectation of a particular group which creates conditions that lead to confirmation of this stereotype

Question 13

Locus of control

Answer 13

A self evaluation that refers to the way we characterize the influences in our lives

Question 15

Peer pressure

Answer 15

Social influence placed on an individual by other individuals they consider equal

Question 16

Humanistic perspective

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Emphasizes internal feelings of healthy individuals as they strive toward happiness and self realization

Question 17

Social constructionism

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Explores how individuals and groups makes decisions to agree upon a given social reality

Question 18

Bottom up processing

Answer 18

Data driven
Recognition of objects by parallel processing and feature detection.
Slower, less prone to mistakes

Question 19

Social facilitation

Answer 19

Tendency to perform at a different level when others are around

Question 20

Group polarization

Answer 20

Tendency towards making decisions in a group that are more extreme than the thoughts of the individual group members

Question 21

Symbolic interactionism

Answer 21

The study of how individuals interact through a shared understanding of words, gestures, and other symbols

Question 22

Stereotypes

Answer 22

Attitudes and impressions that are made based on limited and superficial info

Question 24

Deindividualization

Answer 24

Loss of self awareness in large groups, can lead to drastic changes in behavior

Question 25

Bystander effect

Answer 25

In a group, individuals are less likely to respond to a person in need

Question 28

Conflict theory

Answer 28

Focuses on how power differentials are created and how they maintain order

Question 31

Gestalt principles

Answer 31

Ways the brain can infer missing parts of an image when it is incomplete

Question 34

Stereotype threat

Answer 34

A feeling of anxiety about confirming a negative stereotype

Question 35

Self efficacy

Answer 35

The degree to which we see ourselves as being capable of a given skill in a given situation

Question 39

Functionalism

Answer 39

Focuses on the function and relationships of each component of society

Question 40

Psychoanalytic perspective

Answer 40

Personality results from unconscious urges and desires

Question 41

Self concept

Answer 41

The ways in which we describe ourselves

Past, present, and future

Question 49

Drive reduction theory

Answer 49

Individuals act to relieve internal states of tension

Question 50

Top down processing

Answer 50

Conceptually driven
Recognition of an object by memories and expectations
Faster, more prone to mistakes