AP PSYCH
Actor-Observer Bias Tendency to attribute one's own actions to external causes while attributing other people's behaviors to internal causes
False Consensus Effect
Tendency to overestimate how much other people agree with us
Just-World Phenomenon
Tendency to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy prediction that causes itself to come true due to the simple fact that the prediction was made
• Central Route of
Persuasion The process by which a person thinks carefully about a communication and is influenced by the strength of its arguments
Peripheral Route of
Persuasion The process by which a person does not think carefully about a communication and is influenced instead by superficial cues
Foot-In-The-Door
Phenomenon Tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
Door-In-The-Face
Technique Asking for a large commitment and being refused and then asking for a smaller
commitment and getting agreement
Cognitive Dissonance (Leon Festinger 1957):
Sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a person's behavior does not correspond to that person's attitudes
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
12%-16%
• Psychologist- can't prescribe meds, supports people through
.
psychotherapy
meds, identify
Psychiatrist-can prescribe disorders/diagnose,
hospitals
generally works inside
Currently, in the DSM-5, abnormal behavior is generally defined as...
Deviant, Distressing,
Dysfunctional, Dangerous
Deinstitutionalization
When better psychotropic drugs were created this movement began to remove patients who were not considered a threat to themselves or the community from mental hospitals
Anxiety Disorders
• Generalized Anxiety
Disorder (GAD)
Experience excessive anxiety under most circumstances and worry about practically anything
Panic Disorder Anxiety disorder marked by recurrent and unpredictable panic attacks
Specific Phobia Intense, irrational fear responses to specific stimuli
• Agoraphobia Afraid to be in public situations from which escape might be difficult or help unavailable if panic-like or embarrassing symptoms were to occur