Psych Overview: U5 Ch10 Flashcards
Suggested that the human body was filled with and surrounded by a magnetic force field that could become misaligned and weakened, creating the symptoms of illness.
Animal Magnetism
The increased likelihood of people responding in a particular way when they are part of a group and see others as doing so.
Social Contagion
a peaceful state that could be induced in magnetic therapy, similar to sleepwalking and unlike Mesmer’s “crisis” states.
Perfect Crisis/Artificial somnambulism
The forgetting of events from a hypnotic state after awakening from it.
Post-hypnotic amnesia
Completion of a suggested hypnotic effect after the subject has “awakened” from the hypnosis.
Post-hypnotic suggestion
Greek word for sleep:
Hypnos
Braid’s terms for hypnotism:
Hymnology and neurypnology
A psychogenic disorder in which patients experience physiological symptoms, such as fits of violent emotion, paralysis, anesthesia, amnesias, and other neurological like symptoms, without obvious organic causes.
Hysteria
The enhancement in the performance of a task as a result of being in a social or group setting.
Social facilitation
First American journal devoted to abnormal psychology:
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
What the first american journal was later named:
The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology
The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or “group minds” going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members.
Group Fallacy
An American social psychologist who became famous for his experimental studies of social conformity and suggestibility in groups.
Solomon Asch
A concept study by Asch, Milgram, and other social psychologists to explain how individuals feel pressured to conform to the ideas and opinions of other group members.
Social Conformity
An American social psychologist who studied with Kurt Lewin and later developed the theory of cognitive dissonance.
Leon Festinger
The experience of holding two or more incompatible or contradictory beliefs, which produces such an uncomfortable state of dissonance that one becomes motivated to reduce it.
Cognitive Dissonance
An experimental social psychologist best known for his studies on conformity and obedience in the 1960s in which subjects were told to deliver shocks to a confederate to test their willingness to obey the orders of an authority.
Stanley Milgram
A social phenomenon researched by Lilgram, indicating that most people can be interconnected through a small chain of mutual acquaintances–the “six degrees of separation” effect
Small world phenomenon
The process of explaining a research study to participants before they agree to join, thus informing them of the effects the study may have on them.
Informed Consent
An American social psychologist whose “Lost in the Mall” research focused on false memories and the fallibility of eyewitness accounts.
Elizabeth Loftus
Fictitious recollections of events that can be created in suggestible subjects
False Memories
