full day psych/soc :))

Question 1

demand characteristics

Answer 1

behaviour influenced by how the person thinks the observer wants them to act

Question 2

fluid intelligence

Answer 2

to think logically and abstractly

crystal intelligence —> accumulation of knowledge and skills

Question 3

proximal stim vs distal stim

Answer 3

proximal= the light energy hitting sensory receptors

distal= the actual stimuli

Question 4

operationally defined

Answer 4

how you plan to measure that concept

Question 5

correspondent inference theory

Answer 5

when someone we are observingdoes smth nice or hurtful we attibute it to themselves and their personality

Question 6

social construction of emotions

Answer 6

The social construction model states that emotions are always a product of the current social situation and does not posit any biological basis for emotions, implying a lack of a role for emotions in evolution.

Question 7

pervasive distrust in others and suspision

Answer 7

paranoid PD

Question 8

odd or ecentic thinking, magical thinking, ideas of reference (simular to delusions of reference - that other ppl (or tv) are directed to you)

Answer 8

schizotypical PD

Question 9

delusions of reference

Answer 9

the belief that common elements in the environment are directed directly to individual (thinking TV character is screming at him)

Question 10

delusions of persecution

Answer 10

beleif that the person is being plotted against or threathened

Question 11

neologisms

Answer 11

creating new words

Question 12

disorganized behaviour

Answer 12

unable to carry out normal daily activities

Question 13

catonia

Answer 13

the movement of someone with schizophrenia

examples: echo- lalia (repeating words)

echo-praxia (repeating anothers actions)

Question 14

lalia vs praxia

Answer 14

praxia –> movment

lalia–> words

Question 15

prodormal phase

Answer 15

before schizophrenia in full blow

• deteriorization, socailwithdrawlwal

Question 16

little desire for social interactions, detached, show hardly any emotions

Answer 16

schizoid personality disorder - HAVE no desire for social interactions!!! avoidants do!!

(different from avoidant bc avoidant is - extreme shyness and fear of rejection - they think they are social inept BUT THEY have a stong desire for social affection and attention!!)

Question 17

serial killers

Answer 17

antisocial PD

Question 18

perfectionist and inflexible

Answer 18

obsessive compulisive PD

Question 19

iron law of oligarchy

Answer 19

theory that claims that rule by an elite is inevitable

Question 20

authoritative

Answer 20

strict and warm (v-vegas= warm)

Question 21

authoritarian

Answer 21

strict and cold

Question 22

bureaucratization

Answer 22

process of becoming more governed by laws and policy

Question 23

ideal bureaucracy (5)

Answer 23

division of labour, hierarchy, written rules, impersonality, employment based on technical qualifications

pros and cons to both

Question 24

associative mating

disassortative mating

Answer 24

large animal with large animal

large with short

Question 25

inclusive fittness

Answer 25

a measure of activities that enhance gene propagation of your species - personal fitness and how many offspring equivalents (orphans) you raise

kin selection- your relatives as well

Question 26

fundamentalism

Answer 26

reaction to secularization, go back to strict religious beliefs

Question 27

sects

Answer 27

break away from main church

Question 28

ecclesia

Answer 28

dominant religion

Question 29

social epidemiology

Answer 29

look at health disparities though social indicators Liberace, gender and income and how these affect a persons health (what’s the correlation between social advantages/dis and a persons health and disease)

Question 30

in functionalism why do large an small societies stay together

Answer 30

small- simularity

large- interdependence

Question 31

conflict theory evolves through what stages

Answer 31

feudalism –> capitalism —> socialism

Question 32

rational choice theory vs exchange theory

Answer 32

exchange theory is just rational choice (economics) applied to social interactions

Question 33

rational choice 3 core assumptions

Answer 33

1. completeness
2. transitivity
3. independence

these three result in consistent rankle set of actions

Question 34

completeness

Answer 34

each option can be ranked

Question 35

transitivity

Answer 35

the most preferential option is greater than all possibilities regardless of how they are ranked

Question 36

independence

Answer 36

when new option presented, it would not change the rank

Question 37

age stratification theory

Answer 37

young restricted by age

old also restricted by age

95 not go skydiving
18 not CEO

regulating behaviour based on age

as one ages, loss of control of social resources and control

Question 38

race and ethnicity

Answer 38

both socially defined

race- based on physical differences

ethnicity- based o shared language, religion, nationality

Question 39

gender schema

Answer 39

what makes someone categorized into male or female (modeled framework - not nessasarily how one should act
– women are mothers

general cognitive framework and script is more specific plan about how to behave
schema is more general

Question 40

FECUNDITY

Answer 40

is the potential reproductive capacity of females

Question 41

gentrification

Answer 41

revamping old parts of city, but when this happens it pushes poor out bc prices go up for everything

Question 42

last stage of demographic transition

Answer 42

stage 5 - speculation- world pop stabilizes- food shortages, decrease birth rate public health disaster and pop stabilizes - negative growth rate

Question 43

false consensus

Answer 43

they can’t see their oppression