Part 2 Review Test Flashcards

part 2 of the review questions

Unselfish regard for the welfare of others

What is altruism?

Hallucinations

What are false perceptions that are common symptoms of schizophrenia called?

An exaggeration of, or normal, acceptable behaviors

What is “maladaptive” behavior?

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

What is deindividuation?

Group Polarization

The term that means the enhancement of a group’s prevailing attitudes through discussion within the group is:

Delusions, Hallucinations, and inappropriate emotions or behaviors

What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

A cultural style that places group goals or needs ahead of personal goals or needs

What is collectivism?

Disorganized Schizophrenia

What group of disorders is characterized by delusional thinking and disturbed perceptions?

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

The disorder characterized by a loss of physical function due to high anxiety is:

Adjusting one’s behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

What is conformity?

The tendency to favor one’s own group is usually at the expense of the outgroup

What is an ingroup bias?

An unjustifiable attitude toward a group and its members

What is prejudice?

Paranoid Schizophrenia

What type of schizophrenia usually includes delusions of grandeur and persecution?

Cognitive Dissonance

What theory states that we act to reduce the discomfort we feel when our thoughts are inconsistent with our behaviors?

A rare and controversial dissociative disorder in which an individual experiences two or more distinct and alternating personalities

What is dissociative identity disorder?

The tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate the impact of personal disposition

What is the fundamental attribution error?

The tendency for any given bystander to be less likely to give aid if other bystanders are present

What is the bystander effect?

A condition in which people contribute and receive at about the same rate in a relationship

What is equity?

The study of human psychological processes and behavior across multiple cultures involves the observation of similarities and differences in values, practices, and so forth between different societies

What is cross-cultural research?

An anxiety disorder characterized by disruptive levels of persistent, unexplained feelings of apprehension and tenseness

What is a generalized anxiety disorder?

A person’s perception of the source of control over fate or what happens in life

What is locus of control?

Obsessions

Repetitive thoughts are called:

Compulsions

Repetitive acts are called:

Occurs when belief about others leads one to act in ways that induce others to appear to confirm the belief

 What is a self-fulfilling prophecy?

The theory is that prejudice provides an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame

What is a scapegoat theory?

A system of subtle and obvious rules (shared beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors) established to ensure a group’s survival

What is a culture?

Someone who has no conscious and shows no remorse for other people

What is an antisocial disorder?

An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted, repetitive thoughts and actions

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?

The tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request

What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?

Panic Disorder

What anxiety disorder is marked by sudden bouts of intense, unexplained panic?

Used to describe all the currently accepted categories of mental disorders

What is the DSM-IV-TR used for?

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

What anxiety disorder is marked by persistent, unexplained feelings of apprehension and tension?

False beliefs

What is a delusion?

improved performance of tasks in the presence of others

What is social facilitation?

Achievement Motivation

What is the desire to excel called?

Impediments to marriage

What would a rule that doesn’t allow close relatives to marry be called?

Alternating periods of mania and depression

What is bipolar disorder?

Deviant Behavior

A behavior that violates the social norms of a particular culture can be called:

The tendency to believe that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get

What is the just-world phenomenon?

Dissociative Fugue

Which dissociative disorder is characterized by a loss of identity and travel to a new location?

No concern or remorse for the rights and feelings of other people

What is an antisocial disorder likely to be characterized by?

An aroused state of intense positive absorption in another, usually present at the beginning of a love relationship

What is passionate love?

Personality Disorders

Lasting, rigid patterns of behavior that seriously impair one’s social functioning are called:

Catatonic stupor

What type of schizophrenia involves variations in voluntary movement and waxy flexibility?

Dissociate Disorders

What type of disorders are characterized by a sense of self that has become separated from our previous sense of who we are?

Conversion Disorder

What type of disorder is characterized by symptoms taking a bodily form without any apparent physical cause?