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What is meant by “Personality” in this lesson?Personality approaches: Personality concerns characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
What is meant by “Trait” in this lesson?Personality approaches: A trait describes a relatively stable dimension of individual variation.
What is meant by “Big Five” in this lesson?Personality approaches: The Big Five organizes traits into openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What is meant by “Psychodynamic approach” in this lesson?Personality approaches: Psychodynamic approaches emphasize unconscious processes and developmental experiences with varied empirical support.
What is meant by “Humanistic approach” in this lesson?Personality approaches: Humanistic approaches emphasize experience, agency, meaning, and growth.
What is meant by “Measurement quality” in this lesson?Personality approaches: Personality measures require evidence of reliability, validity, and appropriate interpretation.
What is meant by “Conformity” in this lesson?Social influence: Conformity adjusts behavior or judgment toward a group's pattern.
What is meant by “Compliance” in this lesson?Social influence: Compliance responds to a request.
What is meant by “Obedience” in this lesson?Social influence: Obedience responds to an authority's command.
What is meant by “Normative influence” in this lesson?Social influence: Normative influence concerns acceptance or avoiding social disapproval.
What is meant by “Informational influence” in this lesson?Social influence: Informational influence uses others as evidence about uncertain reality.
What is meant by “Situation and agency” in this lesson?Social influence: Behavior reflects situational pressures while individuals still vary and make choices.
What is meant by “Social identity” in this lesson?Groups and relationships: Social identity concerns self-understanding associated with group membership.
What is meant by “Stereotype” in this lesson?Groups and relationships: A stereotype is a generalized belief about a group that can overlook individual variation.
What is meant by “Prejudice” in this lesson?Groups and relationships: Prejudice involves an evaluative attitude toward people based on group membership.
What is meant by “Discrimination” in this lesson?Groups and relationships: Discrimination is differential treatment based on group membership or other specified categories.
What is meant by “Bystander effect” in this lesson?Groups and relationships: The bystander effect describes reduced helping in some situations with others present, influenced by context.
What is meant by “Groupthink” in this lesson?Groups and relationships: Groupthink describes flawed group decision processes associated with pressures toward agreement under certain conditions.