Social Psychology and Personality Lecture Review

These flashcards cover key terms and concepts from the lecture on social psychology and personality, designed to help review and reinforce understanding of the material.

Obedience

Adherence to instructions from those of higher authority, which can have both positive and negative implications.

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment that tested obedience by having subjects administer shocks to a learner for mistakes, revealing high levels of compliance to authority.

Proximity (in the context of obedience)

The physical closeness to the participant (learner or experimenter) that influences the level of obedience.

Legitimacy of Authority

Factors such as the environment (like a college campus) and symbols of authority (like a lab coat) that increase obedience.

Deindividuation

The tendency for individuals in groups to lose self-awareness and engage in uncharacteristic behavior.

Zimbardo's Prison Experiment

An experiment on prison life where participants adopted their assigned roles as prisoners or guards, leading to extreme changes in behavior.

Personality

Characteristics, traits, and behaviors that are consistent across time and situations.

Id

The part of the mind that controls primitive urges and desires, operating completely unconsciously.

Superego

The component of personality that represents morality and societal rules, often described as the 'angel' in a person's psyche.

Defense Mechanism - Repression

The unconscious driving away of disturbing memories or thoughts from conscious awareness.

Psychosexual Stages

Freud's theory of childhood development that outlines specific stages where pleasure focuses on different erogenous zones.

Fixation (in psychosexual development)

A condition where a person remains attached to a particular psychosexual stage, often due to over- or under-satisfaction.

Oedipus Complex

A child's feelings of desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward their same-sex parent.

Electra Complex

A girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Genital Stage

The final stage of psychosexual development where sexual impulses are rekindled, ideally resulting in mature romantic relationships.

Denial

Refusal to admit or remember

Regression

Acting at quality's of younger age

Reaction formation

Reversing anxiety - causing emotions

Projection

Attribution of negative qualities onto others

Rationalization

Twist unreasonable to sound reasonable

Intellectualization

Focus on facts or impersonal thoughts

Displacement

Redirecting emotions to safer outlet

Sublimation

Transforming socially unacceptable impulse into a admired goal

Anal (1.5 - yrs )

Focus on toilet training

Phallic (3-6 yrs)

Children are attracted to opposite sex parent

Latency (6 -12 yrs)

Sexual impulses submerged into the unconscious