P/S Flashcards

(62 cards)

1
Q

role strain

A

conflicting demands from a single role

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Webers ideal bureaucracy

A

hierarchy of authority, promotion based on effort, special and technical qualifications

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Activation-synthesis theory

A

dreams are merely the interpretation of random electrical brain impulses

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

conformity

A

socially pressured behavioral standards of a group

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Chunking

A

improving the encoding of informartion into memory by breaking information down into smaller “chunks”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Correspondence bias

A

tendency to attribute a personality trait as corresponding with a behavior

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

fMRI

A

used to visualize oxygenation of blood in different parts of the brain
ie. activity

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

CT scan

A

used primarly for brain strucutres

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

rational-legal authority

A

ascribe to an individual because of their socially appointed status

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

charismatic authority

A

based on special personality attribute

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

scoptic conditions

A

low light conditions

  • uses rods
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

cultural transmission

A

passing of culture between generations

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

cultural diffusion

A

spreading of culture between societies

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Hawthorne effect

A

involves individuals modifying or improving an aspect of their behavior in response to being observed

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

social interference

A

occurs when performance on a diffucult task is decreased due to the presence of others

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

social facilitation

A

performance on a well-practiced and simple task is heightened due to the presence of others

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

social desirability bias

A

participants give responses to experimenters they deem to be more socially acceptable and favourable

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Cannon-Bard

A

arousal and emotion same time

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

James-Lange

A

physiological arousal leads to emotion

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Schachter-Singer

A

emotion results from physiological arousal and cognition

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Lazarus

A

emotions are detemined by appraisal of the sitmulus

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Deindividuation

A

sense of dissociation from one’s identity when they are in a crowd

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Groupthink

A

occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity results in irrational decision-making outcomes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Secularization

A

decreasing devotion to religious doctrines or practices

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
religious affiliation
identification of the religious group that a person belongs too
26
Retinal disparity
each of your eyes receives slightly different infromation about an object BINOCULAR CUE
27
Sclera
thick layer that covers most of the exposed portion of the eye
28
retina
detect light and transduce a nervous impulse to the brain
29
Fecundity
potential to bear children
30
social network anaylsis
maps the connections between many different individuals in a community
31
Rural flight
shift from rural areas to cities
32
Reaction formation
pyschological defense mechanism in which a person goes beyond denail and behaves in the opposite way to which they think and feeel
33
oxidative phosphorylation
the metabolic pathway in which cells use enzymes to oxidize nutrients, thereby releasing chemical energy in order to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
34
substrate level phosphorylation
is a metabolism reaction that results in the production of ATP or GTP by the transfer of a phosphate group from a substrate directly to ADP or GDP. Transferring from a higher energy (whether phosphate group attached or not) into a lower energy product.
35
NADH | reducing or oxidizing agent
reducing agent
36
NAD+ | reducing or oxidizing agent
oxidizing agent
37
order of size for microtubules, microfilaments, intermediate filaments
microfilaments, intermediate filaments, microtubules
38
social constructionist perspective
reality is created through social interactions, resulting in agreed-upon shared meanings
39
actor-observer bias
bias to attribute ones actions to external factors but other to internal factors
40
experimenter bias
researchers delibertly influence their study
41
fundamental attribution error
tendency to blame others behavior on interal instead of external factors
42
self-serving bias
successes as internal failures as external
43
elaboration likelihood model
how nonverbal cues can influence the behavior of individiuals
44
Theory of the social self: George Mead
social rather than biological factors influence indentity formation
45
Periphery nations export
resources
46
Core nations export
goods
47
Experimental design
researcher manipulates independent variables to measure their effect on dependent variables
48
Social network anatysis
maps connections between people
49
Secularization
reduced power of religion as religious involvent declines
50
Modernization (religion)
reduced importance of religion as society indistrilizes
51
Fundamentalism (religion)
renewed commitment to tradition religion as a reaction to secularization
52
power
ability to control and influence others
53
authority
whether others believe that the power is legitiamit
54
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
language influences our perception and cognition
55
Differential association theory
deviance is learned through interactions with others engaging in deviance
56
Labelling theory
individuals are labeled as deviant, they will confirm the label by acting deviant
57
Strain theory
deviant behavior results from the disconnect between goals and the means for achieving those goals
58
Hawthorne effect
behave differently as a result of knowing that they are being observed
59
Social epidemiology
focuses on the effect of social factors on individuals and population health
60
Malthusian theory
population growth increases exponentiallly while resources increase at a slower rate
61
Mixed methods deisgn
integrates both quanititative and qualitative approaches
62
Somantic symptom disorder
bodily symotoms causing distress