Psych Overview: U5 Ch10

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Animal Magnetism

Question 2

The increased likelihood of people responding in a particular way when they are part of a group and see others as doing so.

Answer 2

Social Contagion

Question 3

a peaceful state that could be induced in magnetic therapy, similar to sleepwalking and unlike Mesmer’s “crisis” states.

Answer 3

Perfect Crisis/Artificial somnambulism

Question 4

The forgetting of events from a hypnotic state after awakening from it.

Answer 4

Post-hypnotic amnesia

Question 5

Completion of a suggested hypnotic effect after the subject has “awakened” from the hypnosis.

Answer 5

Post-hypnotic suggestion

Question 6

Greek word for sleep:

Answer 6

Hypnos

Question 7

Braid’s terms for hypnotism:

Answer 7

Hymnology and neurypnology

Question 8

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.

Answer 8

Hysteria

Question 9

The enhancement in the performance of a task as a result of being in a social or group setting.

Answer 9

Social facilitation

Question 10

First American journal devoted to abnormal psychology:

Answer 10

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Question 11

What the first american journal was later named:

Answer 11

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

Question 12

The notion that groups or crowds could constitute superorganisms or “group minds” going beyond the combined reactions of their individual members.

Answer 12

Group Fallacy

Question 13

An American social psychologist who became famous for his experimental studies of social conformity and suggestibility in groups.

Answer 13

Solomon Asch

Question 14

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.

Answer 14

Social Conformity

Question 15

An American social psychologist who studied with Kurt Lewin and later developed the theory of cognitive dissonance.

Answer 15

Leon Festinger

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Cognitive Dissonance

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

Stanley Milgram

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Small world phenomenon

Question 19

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.

Answer 19

Informed Consent

Question 20

An American social psychologist whose “Lost in the Mall” research focused on false memories and the fallibility of eyewitness accounts.

Answer 20

Elizabeth Loftus

Question 21

Fictitious recollections of events that can be created in suggestible subjects

Answer 21

False Memories