Chapters 13-15 Exam 4

Question 1

Field of Social Psychology:

Answer 1

The study of emotions, cognitions, motivations, reinforcers, etc.

Question 2

Attribution Theory:

Answer 2

We explain others behaviors with two types of attributions: 1) situational attribution; factors outside the person doing the actions such as peer pressure. 2) Dispositional attribution; the person’s stable, enduring traits, personality, ability, and emotions.

Question 3

Attitudes:

Answer 3

Feelings, ideas and beliefs that affect how we approach and react to other people, objects, and events.

Question 4

Social Loafing:

Answer 4

The tendency of people in a group to show less effort when not held individually accountable.

Question 5

Prejudice:

Answer 5

An unjustified attitude toward a group and its members.

Question 6

Aggression:

Answer 6

Behavior with the intent of harming another person.

Question 7

Aversive/Unpleasant Agression:

Answer 7

Aggression often a response to frustration and other aversive conditions and events.

Question 8

Reinforced/Rewarded Aggression:

Answer 8

Aggression, increases in frequency and intensity after it is reinforced.

Question 9

Family Cultural Models for Aggression:

Answer 9

Growing up around an aggressive group of people, including parents, can lead to an aggressively natured being.

Question 10

Aggression in Media:

Answer 10

Aggression shown in television, movies, videos, books, music, etc. can influence somebody to being aggressive towards others.

Question 11

Altruism:

Answer 11

Unselfish regard for the welfare of other people.

Question 12

Bystander Effect:

Answer 12

Fewer people help when others are available.

Question 13

Conflict Resolution:

Answer 13

Conflicts resolved through the 4 C’s of peacemaking: Contact, Cooperation, Communication, and Conciliation.

Question 14

ADHD:

Answer 14

Impulsivity mixed with inattention and or hyperactivity. Can include distractibility, disorganization, fidgeting, and difficulty suppressing impulses.

Question 15

Medical Model:

Answer 15

Psychological disorders can be seen as psychopathology, an illness of the mind. Disorders can be diagnoses, labeled as a collection of symptoms that tend to go together. People with disorders can be treated, attended to, given therapy, all with a goal of restoring mental health.

Question 16

DSM-V:

Answer 16

Suggests describing someone not just with a label but with a five-part picture. The DSM-V is a symptom list that can be used to diagnose peoples mental issues.

Question 17

Anxiety Disorders:

Answer 17

Our self-protective, risk-reduction instincts in overdrive.

Question 18

OCD:

Answer 18

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, obsessing compulsively about certain things such as germs, lack of cleanliness, order, exactness, something terrible happening, etc.

Question 19

Serotonin:

Answer 19

People with anxiety have problems with the gene associated with levels of serotonin; a neurotransmitter that is involved in regulating sleep and mood.

Question 20

Mood Disorders:

Answer 20

Negative thoughts and negative mood. Explanatory style. A vicious cycle.

Question 21

Risk of Suicide:

Answer 21

People who feel uncontrollably frustrated, trapped, isolated, inaffective, and see no end to these feelings are at the highest risk of suicide.

Question 22

Schizophrenia:

Answer 22

Disorganized thinking; delusions. Disturbed perceptions; hallucinations. Unusual and inappropriate emotions, and actions. Typically symptoms appear at the end of adolescence and in early adulthood.

Question 23

Flat Affect:

Answer 23

Facial/Body expression is flat with no visible emotional content.

Question 24

Catatonia:

Answer 24

Sitting motionless and unresponsive for hours.

Question 25

Anorexia Nervosa:

Answer 25

Compulsion to lose weight, coupled with certainty about being fat despite being 15 percent or more underweight.

Question 26

Bulimia Nervosa:

Answer 26

Compulsion to binge, eating large amounts fast, then purge by losing the food through vomiting, laxatives, and extreme exercise.

Question 27

Psychopath:

Answer 27

Somebody who displays strange, and inappropriate behavior to the point that they begin to seem unsafe to the world around them.

Question 28

Biomedical Therapy:

Answer 28

The use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders.

Question 29

Immigrant Paradox:

Answer 29

People believe that immigration is bad when truthfully there are many benefits that American citizens overlook about immigration. There are also far more immigrants than most people are aware of.

Question 30

Resistance:

Answer 30

The therapist notices times when the patient seems blocked in speaking about certain subjects.

Question 31

Humanistic Therapy:

Answer 31

Client-Centered therapy introduced by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Attempts to support personal growth by helping people gain self-awareness and self-acceptance.

Question 32

Cognitive Therapy:

Answer 32

Therapy involved in changing thoughts of the patient. Introduced by Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis. Reduces errors and distress. Helps people alter their negative thinking that worsens depression and anxiety.

Question 33

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy:

Answer 33

Works to change both cognitions and behaviors that are part of a mental health disorder.

Question 34

PTSD:

Answer 34

A disorder that occurs after experiencing something traumatizing, such as a car accident, death, etc.

Question 35

New Drugs- Placebo Testing:

Answer 35

Doing a study of a specific number of people and giving some people who claim to have a certain symptom the actual drug, while giving a number of the people a placebo. Some people think they got the real drug and display signs of getting better.

Question 36

Antipsychotic Drugs:

Answer 36

Reduces symptoms of schizophrenia, especially “positive” symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.

Question 37

Psychosurgery:

Answer 37

2 Types Lobotomy and Microsurgery.
Lobotomy: Destroys connections between frontal lobes and rest of the brain. This decreases depression, but also destroys initiative, judgment, and cognition.
Microsurgery: Might work by disrupting problematic neural networks involved with aggression or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Question 38

Resilience:

Answer 38

Survive stress without developing mental health disorders.

Question 39

Obsession:

Answer 39

An affixation of an item, place or person.

Question 40

Gender Differences in Depression:

Answer 40

Women tend to be more often depressed than men due to hormones, high media standards, and social bullying.