PSYC 2301 Quiz #8 Review

cognitive dissonance

the unpleasant state that can occur when people become aware of inconsistencies between their attitudes or between their attitudes and their behavior

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ feeling uncomfortable when theres a difference between our attitudes and behavior

manifest content

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ part of freuds dream analysis theory

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ what you literally dreamed of

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ the buildings in a dream

latent content

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ part of freuds dream analysis

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ underlying theme and meaning of dream

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ believing the building in a dream symbolized and meant something else

psychotherapy

any type of approach that uses psychological rather than biological means to treat psychological disorders

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ treatments that use psychological rather than biological means to treat psychological disorders

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ talking therapy

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ better than no treatment

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ better and less relapses when combined with drug therapy

y/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ most people benefit from it and are satisfied with therapist

dispositional attributions

attributing a behavior to some internal cause, such as a personal trait, motive, or attitude ; an internal attribution

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ type of attribution

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ based on internal factors

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ believing a behavior is caused by internal factors like personality

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ thinking someone gave back a dollar because theyre an honest person

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ used more often when it comes to strangers behavior

situational attributions

attributing a behavior to some external cause or factor operating within the situation ; an external attribution

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ type of attribution

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ based on external factors

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ believing a behavior is caused by external factors like the situation

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ thinking someone gave back a dollar because they noticed you saw them

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ used more often when it comes to our own or someone we know well's behavior

self-serving bias

the tendency to attribute one's successes to dispositional causes and one's failures to situational causes

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ attribution egocentrism

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ believing that our own successes are due to internal / dispositional causes

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ believing that our own failures are due to external / situational causes

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ passing an exam because of our hard work and studying

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ failing an exam because the test was tricky and confusing

types of therapy

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ฅ biological / biomedical (drug therapy, electroconvulsive shock therapy, psychosurgeryl)

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ psychodynamic (psychoanalysis)

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ insight (humanistic therapy, gestalt therapy)

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ relationship (family therapy, couple therapy, group therapy)

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ behavior (behavior modification, systematic desensitization, flooding, exposure and response prevention, aversion therapy, participant modeling)

/ᐠ. .ᐟ\ cognitive behavior (rational emotive behavior therapy, cognitive therapy)