another psych thing

Aversive conditioning

________: associate an unpleasant experience with an unwanted behavior (behaviorist)

Free association

________: say everything that comes to mind without hesitation.

Stanley Milgram

________: studies on obedience, having participants "shock "another with increasing voltage.

Solomon Asch

________: studies on conformity, asking participants the matching lines based on length.

Deindividuation

________: loss of self- awareness and self- restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

Antidepressants

________: increase serotonin through reuptake inhibition- may cause drowsiness, anxiety, and suicide risk (SSRI, SNRI)

Attribution theory

________: we explain the behavior of others by crediting either the situation or their disposition.

Antipsychotic drugs

________: decrease dopamine, treat schizophrenia- may cause hand tremors, worsening of negative symptoms, and extreme sedation (thorazine, clozapine)

Phillip Zimbardo

________: social situations influencing people's behavior, Stanford prison experiment.

Systematic Desensitization

________: associate a pleasant relaxed state w /gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli (desensitization hierarchy- behaviorist)

Mere exposure effect

________: repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.

Social loafing

________: tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their effort together.

Social facilitation

________: perform better on simple or well known tasks in the presence of others.

Behaviorist therapy

________: focuses on how people interact with their environment.

Free association

say everything that comes to mind without hesitation

Dream analysis

analyze the manifest and latent content of dreams

Manifest content

seen message in dream

Latent content

hidden messages in dream

Humanistic therapies

focuses on building patients self-fulfillment via growth in self-awareness and self-acceptance

Client or person centered therapy

techniques include active listening, accepting environment, focusing on patient growth (humanistic)

Behaviorist therapy

focuses on how people interact with their environment

Counterconditioning

changing an emotional response, feeling, or attitude toward a stimulus (Little albert-behaviorist)

Systematic Desensitization

associate a pleasant relaxed state w/ gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli (desensitization hierarchy-behaviorist)

Aversive conditioning

associate an unpleasant experience with an unwanted behavior (behaviorist)

Cognitive therapies

challenges negative thought processes

Rational emotive behavior therapy

Ellis, analyzing self-defeating behaviors to change thought patterns, then behaviors associated with said thought patterns (cognitive)

Antianxiety drugs

depress the central nervous system (xanax, ativan)

Mere exposure effect

repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them

Door in the face

a large request is turned down, leads you to be more likely to comply to small request

Attribution theory

we explain the behavior of others by crediting either the situation or their disposition

Social facilitation

perform better on simple or well known tasks in the presence of others

Social loafing

tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their effort together

Deindividuation

loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity

Stanley Milgram

studies on obedience, having participants "shock" another with increasing voltage

Solomon Asch

studies on conformity, asking participants the matching lines based on length

Phillip Zimbardo

social situations influencing people's behavior, Stanford prison experiment