PSYC201A General Psychology Final Exam - Fall 2023

Social Psychology

• Social loafing refers to the tendency to work less hard when in a group compared to when alone.

Developmental Psychology

• According to Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, the key psychological crisis of early/young adulthood is forming intimate relationships versus remaining lonely and isolated.

Psychological Testing

• Self-report personality inventories are structured psychological tests in which individuals are given a limited range of response options to answer a set of questions about themselves.

Cognitive Psychology

• Fluid intelligence is associated with the ability to think abstractly and flexibly in solving problems and it begins to decline in middle and late adulthood.

Social Psychology

• The self-serving bias is the tendency to take credit for our accomplishments and to make external attributions for our failures.

Personality Psychology

• According to Allport, cardinal traits are the pervasive dimensions of personality that one's life revolves around, and most people do not have any.

• Conformity refers to the tendency to adjust one's behavior to actual or perceived social pressures.

Psychology of Love

• According to Sternberg's triangular model of love, decision/commitment refers to the recognition that one loves the other person and is committed to maintaining the relationship.

Psychoanalytic Theory

• In psychoanalytic theory, the ego is the balancing mechanism between id and superego, and the superego acts as the moral guard.

Altruism

• People are displaying helping behavior with altruistic motives if they are not motivated by external factors such as social recognition or guilt avoidance.

Developmental Psychology

• According to Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, the crisis of middle adulthood is generativity vs stagnation.

Compliance Techniques

• The foot-in-the-door technique involves securing compliance with a smaller request and then making a larger request.

Abnormal Psychology

• A conversion disorder is characterized by a change in or loss of a physical function, such as a loss of vision, that cannot be explained by medical causes.