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Exam 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2012

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Gender Roles
Definition
the behaviors, attitudes, and personality traits that are designated as either masculine or feminine in a given culture.
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Intersexed
Definition
Condition in which a person’s biological sex is ambiguous, often combining aspects of both male and female anatomy and/or physiology.
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Transgender
Definition
Condition in which a person’s biological gender identity conflicts with his/her biological sex
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Gender Identity Disorder
Definition
Person who experiences discontent with their sex
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Personality
Definition
refers to the unique characteristics that account for our enduring patterns of inner experience and outward behavior. An individual ‘s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
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Symbolism
Definition
all psychological events have a hidden meaning
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Preconscious
Definition
thoughts and feelings just below awareness; they are available and can be brought to conscious.
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Id
Definition
Entirely unconscious and present at birth. Irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual urges and drives; ruled by pleasure principle.
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Super Ego
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The partly unconscious, self-evaluative, moralistic component of personality that is formed through the internalization of parental and societal rules.
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Source trait
Definition
most fundamental dimensions of personality
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Social Psychology
Definition
How individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people.
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Unconditional Positive Regards
Definition
In Roger’s theory, the sense that you will be valued and loved even if you don’t conform to the standards and expectations of others; unconditional love or acceptance.
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Social Perception
Definition
How we understand individuals/groups, different mental processes that we use to form impressions about others
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Dispositional Attribution
Definition
Explanation of individual behavior from internal characteristics that reside within the individual
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Correspondence Bias (aka: Fundamental Attribution Error)
Definition
The tendency to overvalue dispositional explanations while undervaluing situational explanations. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal characteristics, while ignoring the effects of external, situational factors.
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Compliance
Definition
People changing their behavior because they are asked to do so
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Social Inhibition
Definition
Presence of others impairs performance
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Social Loafing
Definition
the tendency to expend less effort on a task when its a group effort
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Deindividuation
Definition
the reduction of self-awareness and inhibitions that can occur when a person is a part of a group whose members feel anonymous.
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Abnormal Psychology
Definition
Unusual patterns of behavior/emotion/thought
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Clinical interview
Definition
A way that researchers gather data, they observe behaviors and collect histories of the individual
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Analog Observation
Definition
Subject is observed in atificial setting
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Naturalistic Observation
Definition
The systematic observation and recording of behaviors as they occur in their natural settings.
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self monitoring
Definition
when a patient monitors his or her own behavior and reports it to his or her therapist
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Comorbidity
Definition
Presence of other diseases/ disorders in addition to primary diseases/ disorders
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Sex
Definition
the biological category of male or female as defined by physical difference in genetic composition and in reproductive anatomy and function. The behavioral manifestation of the sexual urge; sexual intercourse
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Gender
Definition
the cultural, social, and psychological meanings that are associated with masculinity or femininity.
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Gender Identity
Definition
person’s psychological sense of being male/female
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Sexual Orientation
Definition
the direction of a person’s emotional and erotic attraction toward members of the opposite sex, same sex, or both sexes
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Transgender
Definition
Condition in which a person’s biological gender identity conflicts with his/her biological sex
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Psychic Determinism
Definition
all psychological events have a specific cause.
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Unconscious Motivation
Definition
the motives behind psychological events are outside of our awareness and normally inaccessible.
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Consious
Definition
thoughts and feelings of which we are currently aware
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Unconscious
Definition
thoughts and feelings that are outside of our awareness.
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Ego
Definition
Partly conscious rational component of personality that regulates thoughts and behavior and is most in touch with the demands of the external world.
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Surface Trait
Definition
characteristics that can be inferred from observable behavior
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Situational Attribution
Definition
Explanation of individual behavior through situational influences (from environment or culture)
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Self-serving Bias
Definition
Tendency to perceive oneself favorably.Take credits for our successes by attributing them to internal, personal causes, along with a tendency to distance ourselves from our failure by attributing them to external situational causes
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Self-Enhancement Motive
Definition
Motivation to preserve our positive view about ourselves
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Stereotype
Definition
a cluster of characteristics that are associated with all members of a specific social group, often including qualities that are unrelated to the objective criteria that define the group.
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Prejudice
Definition
a negative attitude toward people who belong to a specific group.
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Discrimination
Definition
Unjustified negative behavior towards a group or individual
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Attitudes
Definition
a learned tendency to evaluate some object, person, or issue in a particular way; such evaluations may be positive, negative, or ambivalent.
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Conformity
Definition
the tendency to adjust one’s behavior, attitudes, or beliefs to group norms in response to real or imagined group pressure.
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Obedience
Definition
the performance of an action in response to the direct orders of an auditory or person of higher status.
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Diffusion of Responsibility
Definition
Person is less likely to take responsibility for an action or inaction when others are present
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Steps of Sexual Response
Definition
Excitement, Plateau, Orgasm, Resolution
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Defense Mechanism (4)
Definition
Denial, Repression, Projection, Displacement
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BIG Five Factors
Definition
Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness to experience
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ABC model
Definition
Affect(prejudice) Behavior(Discrimination) Cognition(Stereotype)
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"Ds" of abnormality
Definition
Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger
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