Exam

Question 1

Who was normal Triplett and why was he important?

Answer 1

Developed social facilitation and discovered that people preform different when there is an audience

Question 2

Social loafing

Answer 2

Reduction in motivation and effort when people work collectively in a group compared to when they work individually

Question 3

social striving

Answer 3

working in a group enhances individual performance rather than diminishes it

Question 4

Whats the difference between conformity and obedience?

Answer 4

Conformity is more about imitating. Obedience has more explicitness.

Question 5

Auto-kinetic effect

Answer 5

a study created by Sherif. an optical illusion that occurs when someone stares at a stationary point of light in a darkened room where there is no frame of reference. People will conform, the reality is less clear

Question 6

are collectivists more likely or less likely to conform?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Sensorimotor (0-2)

Answer 7

Infants gain an understanding of the world through their sense and their motor activities

Question 8

Preoperational (2-7)

Answer 8

Children develop symbolic function and show tendency towards egocentrism

Question 9

Concrete (7-12)

Answer 9

Children develop conservation and reversibility

Question 10

Formal operations 12+

Answer 10

Adolescents can apply logical thought to abstract, verbal, and hypothetical situations and to problems in the past, present and future

Question 11

Conservation

Answer 11

understanding that certain physical characteristics remain unchanged, even when their outward appearance changes. Think piagets conservation task

Question 12

What are Kohlberg’s stages of moral development?

Answer 12

preconventional- right and wrong governed by standards of others. Conventional- Individual has internalized standards of others. Post conventional- individuals weigh moral alternatives

Question 13

Psychosis

Answer 13

in psychosis the ego lets itself be carried away by the id and detached from a part of reality. Generic psychiatric term for a mental state involving the loss of contact with reality.

Question 14

Neurosis

Answer 14

the neurosis the ego suppresses part of the id out of allegiance to reality. a term referring to mental distress that unlike psychosis does not prevent rational thoughts

Question 15

What is the danger of over diagnosis with the DSM?

Answer 15

power of diagnostic labels. confusion of serious mental disorders with normal problems. illusion of objectivity and universality

Question 16

What is trephining?

Answer 16

drilling a hole in the head