Study Guide (Keywords)

Question 1

What is an attribution

Answer 1

Causal explanation of behaviour

Question 2

What is etiology

Answer 2

Cause or causes of disease

Question 3

What is a diagnosis

Answer 3

Identification of the nature of an illness by examination of symptoms

Question 4

What is prognosis

Answer 4

Predicting the course of a disease as well as treatment and results

Question 5

What is neurosis

Answer 5

Obsessive thoughts and anxiety

Question 6

What is psychosis

Answer 6

Loss of contact with reality

Question 7

What is co-morbidity

Answer 7

Simultaneous presence of two or more diseases or medical conditions

Question 8

What is equifinality

Answer 8

Idea that different children can start from different points and wind up at the same outcomes

Question 9

What is multifinality

Answer 9

Children can start from the same point and wind up at any number of out comes

Question 10

What is multipotentiality

Answer 10

Ability and preference of a person to excel in more than one field

Question 11

What in conformity

Answer 11

Tendency to yield to social pressure

Question 12

What is obedience

Answer 12

Compliance with an order request or law to another’s authority

Question 13

What is social psychology

Answer 13

How peoples behaviour and thoughts are influenced by implied/actual presence of others

Question 14

What is stress

Answer 14

Response to a situation that threatens or appears to threaten ones sense of well being

Question 15

What is bystander apathy

Answer 15

The more people present the less likely any person will attempt to help

Question 16

What is cognitive dissonance

Answer 16

Emotional discomfort as result of holding contractictory beliefs or a belief that contradicts their behaviour

Question 17

What is social cognition

Answer 17

How people perceive, interpret, and categorize their own and others social behaviour

Question 18

What is the self serving bias

Answer 18

Tendency to attribute successes as dispositional causes and failures as situational causes. We take credit for our successes but blame external factors for our failures

Question 19

What is the actor observer effect

Answer 19

Tend to make situational attributions about our own behaviour and personal attributions about the others

Question 20

What is social role theory

Answer 20

Set of norms ascribed to a persons social position

Question 21

What is self perception theory

Answer 21

When uncertain we infer what our attitudes are by observing or own behaviour

Question 22

What is social perception theory

Answer 22

How people use social cues to understand others and make judgements about social situations

Question 23

What is the central route of persuasion

Answer 23

Focus on content, factual info and logic to change attitudes

Question 24

What is the peripheral route of persuasion

Answer 24

Focus on superficial info to change attitudes

Question 25

What is group think

Answer 25

Faulty group decision making as a result of trying too hard to agree

Question 26

What is group polarization

Answer 26

Initial attitudes become more intense with more group interaction

Question 27

What is social facilitation

Answer 27

Improvement in performance because others are present

Question 28

What is chronic stress

Answer 28

Long term stress with no definitive end

Question 29

What is the social readjustment scale

Answer 29

Srrs is a list of 43 items containing life events used to rate stress and wellbeing

Question 30

What are hallucinations

Answer 30

False sensory experience

Question 31

What are delusions

Answer 31

False belief someone holds onto even when presented with evidence that it is fake

Question 32

What are obsessions

Answer 32

Persistent unwanted thoughts

Question 33

What are compulsions

Answer 33

Repetitive rigid behaviours or mental acts

Question 34

What is a stigma

Answer 34

perceptions of stigma play a role in peoples decisions about whether to acknowledge their mental issues and seek treatment