General Psych Terms Word Scramble
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| Term | Info |
| Fundamental attribution error | The dual tendency of observers to underestimate the impact of situational factors and to overestimate the influence of dispositional factors on a person's behavior. |
| In-group bias | An evaluation of one's own group as better than others. |
| Hindsight Bias | The inclination to see past events as being predictable. |
| Bobo Doll Study | Albert Bandura - violence learned by observation. |
| Illusory Correlation | A situation in which measures of two or more variables are statistically related but are not in fact causally linked— usually because the statistical relation is caused by a third variable. |
| Pump-Handle Intervention | Dr. John Snow- deals with peripheral aspects of the problem. Cuts off things that most directly and visibly supply the problem. |
| Root cause Intervention | Attempts to get directly at the basic Cause of the problem. |
| In-group | The groups with which people identify as members. |
| Just-World Phenomenon | Refers to the tendency for people to believe that the world is "just" and so therefore people "get what they deserve." |
| Fight-or-flight response | A sequence of internal activities triggered when an organism is faced with a threat; prepares the body for combat and struggle or for running away to safety; recent evidence suggests that the response is characteristic only of males. |
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