PSYCH SOC Flashcards
in studies with bystander intervention - which variable is found to be positively correlated with time it takes for individual to offer help in case of emergency
number of bystanders who witness emergency
person who comes late at a meeting - which explanation makes sense for someone who have self serving bias - what attribute
situational variable
ppl who experience self serving bias atrribute their own nehative behaviours to
situational variables
ex of stable trait (actor/observer) bias
intellect - see if the oberver will attribute the actor perfromace to intellect and the actor thinking their own success is beacuse of intellect
a public health video designed to promote flu shots shows a physician from a prestigious instituition delivering facts about how viruses are spread - the video also features data on how viruses can expose the body to serious illness - what manipulating variables of attitude do they use
peripheral route to perusasion (prestige) central route to persuasion (disease), source characteristics (mentionign dr affiliation with prestigious instituition)
rat receives foor for pressing lever, in variable ratio schedule - what is the response
highest, response rate, with no predicatble pauses
conflict between superego and the id leads to
unconscious conflict
the ego tends to reduce conflict through
defence mechanisms – unconscious conflict is like the drive - want to reduce it
this model integrates the influence of biological predispostions and the environemnt (person has gentic with depression, and unemployment acted as trigger)
diathesis stress model
the DV in a study of polarization is most likely to each participant’s
attitude toward a topic
which experiment procedure is most likely to results in learned helplessness
uncontrollable exposure to aversive stimulus - giving person chock they cant escape (independantly of the intensity of the punishment)
regular breathing and slow brain waves what stage
3
when response results in escape from aversive stimulus its known as
negative reinforcement – rat in box presented with a tone followed by electric shock, it jump over barrier to other side of the box where no shock
changes in brain size as a function of environmental influences (socialization) is an example of
neural plasticity
explaining behaviour through self concept and incongruence is consisted with what perspective
humanistic
participant is asked to solve a easy puzzle in front of others (easy task
social facilitation (EASY/MANAGEABLE TASK)
when person does a challenigng task infornt of audience this will increase ______beyond optimal and interfere with ________
arousal, performance
the IV of a memory study that tests the encoding specificity effect is most likely
the location of encoding and retrieval
___________ this refers to enhanced memory when testing takes place under the same conditions as learning
encoding specifcity
hypothetical reasoning is mastered in what piaget stage
formal operational
patient has depression, and blaes failure on personal incompetence, therapist tried to change pateint thinking by suggesting may be bc lack of effort - what are they trying to change
locus of control
researcher wants to assess siz of pateint brain ventricles what scan
CAT (STRUCTURE OF BRAIN
if graph shows both a recency and primacy effect, when does recall ahppen
immedidatly after when final items are still in short term
when rsearcher changes the hue after the infant stops responding to the og stimulus example of
habituation
