AP Psychology Review: Personality and Social Psych

Question 1

The feeling of being alone in an unfamiliar or hostile world is called…

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Basic anxiety

Question 2

Coming up with a beneficial result of an undesirable occurrence to cope with an issue....

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Rationalization

Question 3

When we don't put in as much effort when acting as part of a group as when acting alone...

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Social loafing

Question 4

The presence of others improves task performance on usually simple tasks or well-practiced...

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Social facilitation

Question 5

When groups are so driven to reach unanimous decisions they no longer evaluate the implications

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of their decisions... Groupthink

Question 6

According to Jung, the mask the person presents to the world is your…

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Persona

Question 7

Successes or failures are believed to be a direct result of a person’s efforts...

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Internal locus of control

Question 8

Which of the following tries to explain how people determine the cause of what they observe?

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Attribution Theory

Question 9

When expectations we have about others influences the way they behave, we have used the…

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Self-fulfilling prophesy

Question 10

Which is NOT one of Costa and McCrae’s Big Five Theory organization of personality?

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Aggressiveness

Question 11

Overestimate dispositional factors and underestimate the role of situational factors...

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Fundamental attribution error

Question 12

When people modify their actions simply since they know they are being observed

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Hawthorne Effect

Question 13

According to Freud, part of personality that provides standards for judgment (the conscience)..

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superego

Question 14

When group members lose self-restraint and do things in the group they never would have done?

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Deindividualization

Question 15

The tendency for people to overestimate the number of people who agree with them is using the..

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False consensus effect

Question 16

Tendency of a group to make more extreme decisions than group members would make individually..

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Group polarization

Question 17

According to Bandura, ways in which people explain themselves or react in different situations

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Explanatory styles

Question 18

Helps explain persuasion; if central route or the peripheral route would be more effective

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Elaboration likelihood model

Question 19

Attitude change to reduce the tension caused by inconsistencies between attitudes and behaviors

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Cognitive dissonance theory

Question 20

According to Freud, the “pleasure principle” that strives to satisfy basic drives is...

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id

Question 21

The Rosenthal Effect is the ____ applied to education.

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Self-fulfilling prophesy

Question 22

Which defense mechanism is not accepting the ego-threatening truth?

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Denial

Question 23

When you believe misfortunes befall people who deserve them you are using the…

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Just world bias

Question 24

Which of the following refers to how people assign responsibility for certain outcomes?

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Attribution

Question 25

Larger the number of people who witness emergency situation, the less likely anyone is to act

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Bystander Effect

Question 26

A personality of either by extreme reticence or extreme aggressiveness; lack of self-esteem....

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Inferiority complex

Question 27

According to Jung, the deep, passionate, inner person is your…

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Shadow

Question 28

The tendency to take more credit for good outcomes than for bad ones is using the…

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Self-serving bias

Question 29

According to Jung, behavior and memory common to all and passed down through the generations...

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Collective unconsciousness

Question 30

When you believe a person’s qualities caused a behavior you are assigning…

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Dispositional attribution

Question 31

Which of the following is how best to resolve group conflict?

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Contact theory

Question 32

The more people around the less responsible any one individual feels to do anything...

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Diffusion of responsibility

Question 33

Which defense mechanism is being used when you are blocking thoughts from conscious awareness?

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Repression

Question 34

When one is expressing the opposite of how one truly feels to cope with an issue...

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Reaction Formation

Question 35

Being watched actually hurts the performance on a difficult task or a not well-practiced skill

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Social inhibition

Question 36

When you believe external or environmental reasons caused a behavior you are assigning…

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Situational attribution

Question 37

Trait Theorists concentrating on intensive studies of individuals (his or her unique self), use

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Idiographic analysis

Question 38

Actual helpful def. mechanism where you channel one’s frustration toward a different goal?

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Sublimation

Question 39

Perception of out-group members as more similar to one another than are in-group members...

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Out-group homogeneity

Question 40

Trait theorists seek general laws about various aspects of personality based on groups, use...

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Nomothetic analysis

Question 41

“Reality principle” the largely conscious part that mediates the parts of your personality…

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ego

Question 42

When successes or failures are attributed to luck or chance, a person is said to have…

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External locus of control

Question 43

The ability to view the victims of violence as somehow less than humans is known as…

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Dehumanization

Question 44

(Defense mechanism) Returning to an earlier, comforting form of behavior to cope with an issue

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Regression

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Redirecting one’s feeling toward another person or object to cope as a defense mechanism....

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Displacement

AP Psychology Review: Personality and Social Psych

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