Psych - Unit 5 Flashcards
Psychodynamic
Human interactions and behavioral responses
Humanistic
free will’s impact on human responses
Trait
the connection between behavior & biology
social-cognitive
human behavior as influenced by thoughts & judgement
Sigmund Freud
Father of psychoanalysis and psychosexuality
Carl Rogers
Father unconditional positive regard
Freud - Psychological Determinism
thoughts, feelings, behaviors everything basically has a psychological cause
Freud - Two Major Drives of Behavior
Sex and Aggression
Freud - conscious level
Everyday awareness, at the moment awareness
Freud - preconscious level
Things that you have learned, storage
Freud - unconscious level
unconscious thoughts, feelings, greatest amount of storage
Freud - Id
Exists from birth, pleasure principal, mostly unconscious desires, automatic behaviors
Freud - Super Ego
Concept of right and wrong, keeps the Id in check, mostly unconscious,
Freud - Ego
Reality principle, acts on actual possibilities, balances Id/Super Ego,
Carl Rogers - Client Centered Therapy
Client will self therapize due to their need for societal acceptance and thus will make changes necessary
Carl Rogers - Unconditional Positive Regard
Acceptance without conditions
Maslow - Self Actualization
innate drive to achieve highest emotional and intellectual potential
Erik Erickson
Expanded Freuds theory into personality development in adolescence
Eysenck’s Three Dimensions
extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism
Albert Bandura
social learning theory, and self-efficacy
Mischel’s Cognitive-Affective
situations determine behavior
Mischel’s personality signatures
if-then situations that determine personality
“Internals”
They feel in some way personally responsible for everything that happens to them
“Externals”
Blame what happens to them on outside forces
Social cognition
How people think about other people
Cognitive Dissonance
when attitudes and behaviors are inconsistent
Persuasion - peripheral route
The look of the content not the actual content does the persuading i.e magazines
mere exposure effect
just being exposed to something, causes your attitude towards it to become better
ingroup / outgroup
your group/ other group(s)
social categorization
sorting people into us vs them
self fulfilling prophecy
when you behave in a way based on your assumptions, then the person in turn acts how you expected, the “confirm” your stereotype
“Jigsaw” class room
students form groups and research different topics, then form newer expert groups and share information to collectively and through interdependence do well on a report
Internal / External Attributions
Belief based behavior / situational based behavior
Fundamental attribution error
assuming someone’s behavior is due to internal causes instead of external situations
Self-serving bias
Your success is internal, your failures have to be external…..others success external, failures internal
Sternberg’s 3 Factors for forming relationships
Attractiveness, Repeated contact, similarity
Informational Social influence
conformity to be appropriate
Normative social influence
conformity to be liked
The Milgram Study
65% of people were willing to follow orders to hurt others if the person giving the order was an authority
20% followed the orders when the person was an equal
groupthink
believing everyone in the group, and not fact checking them, mob mentality thinking and behavior
