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Agreeableness
A personality trait that reflects a person’s tendency to be compassionate, cooperative, warm, and caring to others. People low in this trait tend to be rude, hostile, and to pursue their own interests over those of others. (OCEAN)
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Schema
A mental model or representation that organizes the important information about a thing, person, or event (also known as a script).
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Likability, Authority, Honesty
What are the 3 components of the Triad of Trust?
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Conformity
Changing one’s attitude or behavior to match a perceived social norm.
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Panic disorder
A condition marked by regular strong panic attacks, which may include significant levels of worry about future attacks.
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Extraversion
A personality trait that reflects a person’s tendency to be sociable, outgoing, active, and assertive.
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Heuristics
A mental shortcut or rule of thumb that reduces complex mental problems to more simple rule-based decisions.
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Social proof
The mental shortcut based on the assumption that, if everyone is doing it, it must be right.
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Obedience
Responding to an order or command from a person in a position of authority.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A disorder characterized by the desire to engage in certain behaviors excessively or compulsively in hopes of reducing anxiety. Behaviors include things such as cleaning, repeatedly opening and closing doors, hoarding, and obsessing over certain thoughts.
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Big Five
What is another name for the 5-factor model of personality? (OCEAN)
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Implicit association test
An implicit attitude task that assesses a person’s automatic associations between concepts by measuring the response times in pairing the concepts.
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Central route
Persuasion that employs direct, relevant, logical messages.
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Good job
Give an example of how conformity can be positive.
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Fight or flight response
A biological reaction to alarming stressors that prepares the body to resist or escape a threat.
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HEXACO model
An alternative model to the Five-Factor Model. It includes six traits, five of which are variants of the traits included in the Big Five
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Planning fallacy
A cognitive bias in which one underestimates how long it will take to complete a task.
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Peripheral route
Persuasion that relies on superficial cues that have little to do with logic.
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Asch experiment
In which experiment did the participant demonstrate conformity by incorrectly guessing which of the three lines on the left were the same length as the line on the right?
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Biological vulnerability
A specific genetic and neurobiological factor that might predispose someone to develop anxiety disorders.
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The honeymoon effect
The tendency for newly married individuals to rate their spouses in an unrealistically positive manner.
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Durability bias
A bias in affective forecasting in which one overestimates for how long one will feel an emotion (positive or negative) after some event.
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Reciprocity
Persuasion technique where we feel compelled to repay, in equitable value, what another person has given to us.
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Milgram experiment
In which experiment was the "teacher" asked to deliver a (supposedly) painful electric shock to the "learner"?
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Agoraphobia
A sort of anxiety disorder distinguished by feelings that a place is uncomfortable or may be unsafe because it is significantly open or crowded.
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