The scientific study of how individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other individuals, or "social stimuli," is referred to as
... [Show More] what? - correct answer✔✔ Social Psychology
Kurt Lewin developed ________, which examined interaction patterns between the individual and the total environment, and posited that people typically move toward goals in the field that are satisfying and away from goals that are negative or threaten their needs. - correct answer✔✔ Field Theory (field = one's immediate environment)
Lewin's Field Theory holds that conflict occurs when forces directing one toward or away from goals are opposite in direction and about equal in strength. The 3 types of conflicts are ________, which occurs when one is forced to choose between 2 equally attractive goals, _______, which occurs when one has to choose between 2 equally unattractive goals, and ________, which occurs when one is both attracted to and repelled by the same situation at the same time. - correct answer✔✔ Approach-approach (e.g., person receives 2 equally attractive date requests for the same night); avoidance-avoidance (e.g., person does not like job, but only other option is unemployment); approach-avoidance (e.g., teen chooses to go to a party with knowledge he will be grounded for doing so)
According to Field Theory, what are the typical response patterns to each of the 3 conflict situations discussed by Lewin? - correct answer✔✔ Approach-approach = initial ambivalence, then goal person chose to move toward becomes more attractive and the other goal less attractive; avoidance-avoidance = initially attempt to move away from both goals- if that does not work, person vacillates between the 2 goals until an equilibrium is achieved; approach-avoidance = person remains in field and eventually reaches a stable equilibrium where approach and avoidance forces are balance
The tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued but left incomplete is referred to as ________ and suggests that people are better able to remember uncom [Show Less]