Uworld New stuff

Question 1

power

Answer 1

the ability to control and influence others

Question 2

authority

Answer 2

whether others believe the power is legitimate

Question 3

traditional authority

Answer 3

longstanding and comes from traditional patterns in society.

Question 4

charismatic authority

Answer 4

stems from personal appeal

Question 5

rational-legal authority

Answer 5

arises from the professional position someone holds

Question 6

instinctive drift

Answer 6

learned behavior replaced by instinctive behavior

Question 7

subculture

Answer 7

subculture is a group that is different from the dominant culture in some way but who’s values and norms still align.

members of a subculture identify as a group, dress differently and speak differently (doctors)

Question 8

stereotype boost

Answer 8

when positive stereotypes about a group lead to improved performance.

Question 9

intersectionality

Answer 9

being ___ and ____ means your situation is even worse. Male and black and prison system.

Question 10

aggregate

Answer 10

group of people who share a common location but do not identify as a group

Question 11

core nations

Answer 11

resources in and goods out

Question 12

ethnography

Answer 12

qualitative method for the scientific study of human phenomena. Within a specific geographic location, study the norms of individuals.

Question 13

place theory

Answer 13

explains the perception of sound pitch

Question 14

what brain area is most important for James-Lange

Answer 14

hypothalamus

Question 15

vicarious emotions

Answer 15

when an observer intuits the emotions another might be experiencing

Question 16

content analysis

Answer 16

qualitative technique meant to examine text and images used in human communication. Asses one-on-one verbal communication. Ex: transcripts of interviews, online content.

Question 17

operationalize a variable

Answer 17

a variable that is not directly measured is defined in such a way that it can be measured for the purposes of testing/assessment.

Question 18

insight

Answer 18

when the solution suddenly becomes apparent all at once

Question 19

incentive theory

Answer 19

of motivation, suggests that organisms are motivated to act in order to obtain external rewards.

Stronger incentives are more immediate.

Question 20

life course approach

Answer 20

a holistic, multidisciplinary framework for understanding how psychological, biological, and sociocultural factors across a lifetime have a cumulative effect on health outcomes.

Question 21

more social ties for work means ___

Answer 21

more opportunity for social capital

Question 22

actor-observer compared to fundamental attribution error

Answer 22

attribute one’s own actions to situational and others actions to dispositional.

fundamental attribution error is only making dispositional beliefs about other’s behavior

Question 23

coworkers are considered ____ groups

Answer 23

secondary