PSYC 1101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Exaptation, Hermann Rorschach, Reciprocal Altruism

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Sod: time for me to fly r. e. o. Exam 4 review (mmpi) minnesota multiphasic personality inventory: this thoroughly researched extensive true/false questionnaire is one of the most widely used personality inventories. Deindividuation: the phenomenon when immersion in a group causes an individual to lose a sense of their individual beliefs. Obedience: tendency to do what authorities tell us to do. Consistency bias: tendency to skew memory of the past so that it is more similar to the present state. Reaction formation: unconsciously replacing threatening inner wishes and fantasies with an exaggerated version of the opposite. Retroactive interference: phenomenon which occurs when later learning impairs memory of information acquired earlier. Misattribution: assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source. Thematic apperception test: projective personality test in which one tells a story based on an ambiguous picture. Conformity: the tendency to do what others do just because others are doing it.