Psych Vocab Test

What does it mean to cooperate with others?

• people working together to reach a goal
• working toward a goal while denying access to that goal to others

Psychology is the study of...

• Mental Processes
• Ancient writings
• Society
• Plants

What is "stigma"?

• when individuals with a certain characteristic or attribute become rejected by society as a result of that characteristic
• when individuals with a certain characteristic or attribute become accepted by society as a result of that characteristic
• there is no such thing as stigma

What is the Attribution Process?

• how we explain the causes of behavior
• how we explain the causes of the behavior of others
• how we explain the causes of the behavior the we exhibit ourselves

What is a Self - Serving Bias?

• Tendency to attribute success to internal (personal) factors and failures to external (situational) factors
• Tendency to attribute failures to internal (personal) factors and successes to external (situational) factors
• There is no Self-Serving Bias

What does it mean to compete with others?

• people working together to reach a goal
• working toward a goal while denying access to that goal to others

What is an explicit attitude?

• can be reported consciously
• automatic responses, possibly unconscious

What is an implicit attitude?

• can be reported consciously
• automatic responses, possibly unconscious

What is the door-in-the-face effect?

• if people first agree to a small request, they are more likely to comply with a larger request later
• if people are asked for a large favor first (which they deny), they are more likely to comply with a subsequent smaller request