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Final Study Guide
Flashcards for psychology
Question | Answer |
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What is the definition of a Behavioral Perspective in Psychology? | A perspective that tracks, measures or bases itself on an individuals's experience with rewards and punishments which can cause behavioral patterns. (ie. You can be "trained to behave in certain ways.) |
What is the main study/experiment that we studied in class on the behavioral perspective? And or what is an everyday experiment we see with this psychological perspective? | Ivan Pavalov's Classical Conditioning Study with dogs and tuning forks and or cheese-maze experiments with rats |
What is a norm/cultural norm? | They are rules that regulate human life, including social conventions, explicit laws, and implicit cultural standards that may cause you to act or behave in a certain way because thats what expected out of you. |
Name an example of a norm that we can see on an everyday basis here in school? | Common ones include “raise hand before talking,” or “walk in the hallways,” "treat others the way you wanted to be treated, "or even No telephone use during lectures or no smoking on school grounds etc. |
What are the factors of obedience? | Allocating responsibility to authority, routinizing(making a routine) the task, wanting to be polite, becoming entrapped(becoming deceived) |
What was the obedience study and what were the results? | Milgrim did the shock study. The study investigated wheather people would follow orders even when it violated their ethical standards. It generated further research on violence and obedience (this was controversial) |
What is conformity? | A type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group |
What is an example of conformity? | Ex. Volunteering to clean up trash just because all of your friends are doing it Ex. Sneaking out of the house because your friends want you to |
What is individuation? | In groups or crowds, the loss of awareness of ones own individuality |
What are the factors of individuation? | Size of city or group |
What is a Bio-Pyscho social model? | A model that includes a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors affecting an individual, to examine how and why disorders occur and or a person’s physical state. |
What does each aspect of this model represent? | The 'bio' component examines aspects of biology that influence health like brain changes, genetics, or functioning of major body organs. The 'psycho' component of the theory examines psychological components, things like thoughts, emotions, or behaviors. |
...last question continued | The 'social' component of the BPS model examines social factors that might influence the health of an individual, things like our interactions with others, our culture, or our economic status. |
What is an example of a Bio-Pyscho social model? | One example could be treatment for addition |