psych vocab 3

5 Written Questions

1. the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
2. defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even to perceive painful realities
3. unselfish regard for the welfare of others
4. a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed to be conducive to developing self-awareness and self-acceptance.
5. An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsession) and/ or actions (compulsions).

5 Matching Questions

1. Social Psychology
2. Fundamental Attribution Error
3. Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenom
4. Mere Exposure Effect
5. Psychosexual Stages

1. a the tendency for observers, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition
2. b the scientific study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
3. c the tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request.
4. d the phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them
5. e the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id's pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
   1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
   2. Dissociative Identity Disorder
   3. Personality Disorders
   4. Major Depressive Disorder
2. a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people
   1. Stereotype
   2. Superego
   3. Trait
   4. Attitude
3. An unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.
   1. Denial
   2. Prejudice
   3. Trait
   4. Attitude
4. The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
   1. Rationalization
   2. Rorschach Inkblock Test
   3. Groupthink
   4. Social Psychology
5. the theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition
   1. Attitude
   2. Altruism
   3. Attribution Theory
   4. Discrimination

5 True/False Questions

1. Bipolar Disorder → an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations

   True        False

2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) → a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

   True        False

3. Medical Model → the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital

   True        False

4. Schizophrenia → a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions

   True        False

5. Dissociative Identity Disorder → a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.

   True        False