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| Personal Space, Contect specific norms, zimbardo's prison experiment |
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| how people react in different scenarios, and how they are supposed to act. |
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| Zimbardo's Prison experiment |
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| The students realy began to believe they were who the role said they were. |
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| percptual judgement conformity is when people all assume that someone else is helping out a situation in need but then no one does because they want to give the responsibility over to someone else. |
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| factors affecting conformity: |
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| group size, culture, characteristics of the other group members, and presence of another nonconformist |
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| group projects in school: when people rely on others to do the work for them. |
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| when groups of large people adopt a temporary norm from the group and participate in things such as unknowingly hurting someone. |
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| when everyone sees everyone else not looking worried so they stay longer, for instance if there is smoke and no one else looks worried, the person will stay seated and pretend like its not a big deal also. |
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| when the victim is called the teacher and is ordered to inflict harm on the student whenever they give the wrong answer, the victim will feel pressured and feel the need to feel polite and continue with the harmful experiment |
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| is a rule that regulates human behavior, including social conventions, explicit laws, and implicit cultural standards. |
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| a given social position that is goverened by a set of rules and norms (implicit, and explicit cultural standards ) for behavior |
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| a given social position that is governed by a set of rules and norms ( implicit and explicit cultural standards ) for behavior |
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| tendency to match one's behavior to the behavior of others around us. |
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| diffusion of responsibility |
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| tendency for members of a group to feel less personally responsible for their behaviors |
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| loss of awareness of one's own individuality when part of a large group or crowd |
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| tendency for group members to work less hard on group tasks-- to let others do the work |
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| using the inaction of other in an emergency situation as a cue that the emergency is not very serious- aka fire alarm |
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| entrapment- a situation which pressures people into self-defeating behaviors, usually through a gradually escalating committiment to a course of action in order to justify or defend their previous investment of time, emotion, effot, or money. |
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| the tendency for members of a group to think alike, in part because of suppression of disagreement. |
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| group polarization effect |
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| the tendency of people who are part of a group decision making process-making process to make decisions that are more extreme than the average of the decisions that the inviduals in their group would have made if they had made their decisions aloe or independently. |
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| beliefs about the characteristics of Groups of people |
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| a negative attitude toward members of a particular group |
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| judgement involved in assigning a cause to the behavior of others or ourselves |
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| fundamental error of attribution |
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| tendency to overattribute behavior to internal causes- especially when evaluating other peoples' behavior |
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| tendency to attribute our own successes to internal causes, while accusing our failures to external causes |
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| strategy of setting up a potential external cause explanation for anticpated failure. |
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| the need to believe that the world is a fair and just place; that bad people are punished and good people are rewarded. |
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| any behavior or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering or worry; self defeating or self destructive or is maladaptive and disrupts the person's relationships for the larger community. |
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| deviation from the norm- statistically deviant, and deviant from social norms; maladaptive for self or others; and emotional distress |
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| inability to understand that the legal acts were wrong, and irrisistable response |
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| the book that lists symptoms associated with each of hundreds of mental disorders |
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| consistency of diagnosis and gives the appropriate treatment |
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| danger of overdiagnosis; normal problems labelled disorders; power of labels-- designated as disordered, reduced personal responsibilty for behavior, changes in how other percieve behavior |
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| continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry, and dread, apprehension, and difficulties with concentration, and signs of motor tension. |
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| disorder i which a person experiences recurring panic attacks |
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| brief periods of intesnse fear and feelings of dread and impending doom accompanied by intense physiological symptoms of anxiety. |
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| unrealistic fear of a specific situation, activity, or object |
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| obsessive compulsive disorder- a disorder in which the individual feels trapped in repetitive persitent thoughts- obsessions- and repetitive ritualized behaviors- compulsions designed to reduce anxiety |
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| hoarders-checkers- washers |
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| anxiety, maladaptive coping mechanisms, and fear of anxiety |
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| susceptibiity to panic attacks, and low llevels of certain nuerotransmitters possibly, and classical conditioning of anxiety, and operant conditoning of maladaptive coping |
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| cognitive therapies-- ration-emotive therapy, cognitive therapy; humanistic therapy-- rogers client centered therapy-attitude of unconditional positive regard; group therapy-- learned that your problems are not unique, old excuses arent accepted, learn improvement strategies from others, and serve as both patient and helper; bioligical therapies-- tranquilizers, anti depressant medication for OCD; and behavioral therapies-- learning better coping mechanisms, extinguishing the anxiety, systematic desensitization, and flooding- which is pushing through the panic attack |
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| unipolar depression- major depression characteristics |
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| despondency, self blame, low self esteem, tiredness, limited decision-making ability, lack of enjoyment, dwelling on sad thoughts, thoughts of suicide |
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| frequency of Unipolar depression |
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| female to male ratio-- 2:1, half of people experience it just once, others have a large differenec in length, frequency, and severity. |
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| bipolar disorder- aka manic depressive disorder- MD |
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| when one goes from extreme depression to extreme joy - around 1% of the population has this |
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| Risk factors/ causes/ theories for bipolar |
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| twin studies- usually if one identical twin has it, so will the other, but this is not the case for fraternal twins, blows to self esteem, economic difficulties, relationship problems, lack of social supports, specific depressing experiences, attachment relationship problems, and depression prone personality/ vulnerability to depression. |
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| treatment of bipolar/ depression |
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| drugs, electroconclusive therapy- which creates a seizure in the brain to restart the brains normal happy feeling, and insight therapies. |
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| refers to the tendency we have to increasingly accept evidence as being true the more times it is presented to us |
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| positive characteristics of Schizophrenia are |
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| addition to normal behavior, such as hallucinations and delusions, disorganized behavior, and disorganized thinking and language use. |
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| negative characteristics of schizophrenia |
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| are losses of normal features of behavior such as social withdrawel, emotional flatness |
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| Multiple Personality Disorder- aka MPD and now called dissociative identity disorder |
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| chances of having schizophrenia are |
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| acute patterns of schizophrenia |
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| are not typical- they are sudden onsets during high stress and or following amphetamine use |
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| process pattern schizophrenia |
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| cycling periods of increasingly disordered behaviors beggining in teen years or early adulthood |
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| causes of schizophrenia are |
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| heredity, environmental stress, brain abnormalities, prenatal abnormalities. |
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| treatment of schizophrenia in the 50's |
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| institutionalization, and lobotomies |
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| schizophrenia treatment today |
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| drug treatments and deinstitutionalization |
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