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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER
10 AND 13 EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: repetitive behavior that a person feels a strong urge to perform
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compulsion Question 2: increasing compliance by first getting the person to agree to a deal and then changing the terms of the deal to be more favorable to yourself
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low-balling Question 3: our tendency to make attribution that preserve our own self-esteem - for example, making trait attributions for our success and situational attributions for our failures
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self-serving bias
Question 4: aggression that is used to facilitate the attainment of a goal
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instrumental aggression
Question 5: a disorder marked by physical compliants that have no apparent physical cause
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somatoform disorder Question 6: a symptom of schizophrenia that includes inappropriate or unusual behavior such as silliness, catatonic excitement, or catatonic stupor
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disordered behavior
Question 7: helping another without being motivated by self-gain
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altruism
Question 8: another term for altruism
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helping behavior Question 9: a culture, like many Asian cultures, in which group accomplishments are valued over individual accomplishments
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collectivistic culture Question 10: the idea that responsibility for taking responsibility for taking action is diffused across all the people witnessing an event
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diffusion of responsibility Question 11: the area of social psychology that deals with the ways in which we think about other people and ourselves
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social cognition
Question 12: a mood disorder characterized by both depression and mania
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bipolar disorder
Question 13: a goal that is shared by different groups
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superordiante goal Question 14: performing better on a task in the presence of others than you would if you were alone
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social facilitation Question 15: a book published by the American Psychiatric Association that lists the criteria for close to 400 mental health disorders
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) Question 16: the idea that we strive to have attitudes and behaviors that do not contradict one another
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cognitive consistency Question 17: an anxiety disorder involving a pattern of unwanted intrusive thoughts and the urge to engage in repetitive actions
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obsessive-compulsive disorder Question 18: an anxiety disorder characterized by fear and anxiety in the absence of danger that is accompanied by strong physical symptoms
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panic disorder
Question 19: thought that tends to be pessimistic and negative
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cognitive distortion
Question 20: the inablility to follow though on one's plans
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avolition
Question 21: the belief that one cannot control the outcome of events
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learned helplessness
Question 22: behavior that helps others
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prosocial behavior Question 23: an anxiety disorder, characterized by distressing memories, emotional numbness, and hypervigilance, that develops after exposure to a traumatic event
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posttraumatic stress disorder Question 24: when group members exert less effort on a group task than they would if they were performing the task alone
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social loafing Question 25: a type of social influence in which someone tries ti change our attitudes
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persuasion Question 26: an anxiety disorder characterized by an intense fear of a specific object or situation
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phobic
Question 27: a disorder in motor behavior involving immobility
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catatonic stupor