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Adjusting to Modern Life Flashcards

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________________ is the ability to reflect inwardly and be aware of internal states and interactions/relationships with others.

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Self-Awareness

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Self awareness is both”______________”.

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A tool and a goal

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_______________ is associated with being more prosocial.

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Self-awareness

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_________________ is a way to help reduce psychological distress.

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Self-awareness

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_________________ helps you understand yourself in relation to others, why you are feeling a certain way, empowers you to manage yourself effectively, continue to build and develop meaningful relationships, and improves your awareness of friends, family, and coworkers.

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Self awareness

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__________________ is developing an understanding of others and appreciation for the interconnectivity of people and the natural world.

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Social awareness

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__________________ can positively impact relationships with family, friends, community, and environment, can better take other perspectives, better conflict resolution skills, and value diversity.

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Social-awareness

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______________ is the idea that modern technology has provided us with an abundance of time-saving devices.

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Paradox of Progress

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What are some examples in our life of the paradox of progress?

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Dishwashers, trains, busses, cars, microwaves, social media, etc.

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The iGeneration was born after __________.

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1995

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13-14 year olds send an average ___ texts a day

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45

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17-19 year olds send an average ___ texts a day

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74

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Twenge (in Dingwall & Goodes, 2017) warned over ___ hours a day on social media can have negative mental health consequences

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2

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Too many choices leads to “________________” and struggles with decisions.

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Choice overload

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15
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Modern technology provides us with economic abundance and “_________________.”

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Possession overload

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16
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Hartmann (2004) argued our current culture has a poverty of: ________________, ___________________, and __________________.

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Spirit
Time
Security and support

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17
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Excellent self-help books do exist. However, many are not effective. True or false?

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True

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The message self-help books use is too vague to be useful, as they are dominated by “______________”

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Psychobabble

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Parents providing a high-stress environment affects their children and can cause autism ADHD, disorders, etc. True or false?

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True

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Children that are stressed early in life, have bad impulse regulation. True or false?

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True

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Children that grow up in a stressful environment are more prone to addiction, true or false?

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True

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Stress can be triggered by _________________.

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Uncertainty, lack of information, and loss of control

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There a 4 things that Karl Marx claimed are alienated within our culture. What are they?

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Work, nature, from other people, and ourselves

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Mate believes that more diseases are emerging in society although technology is advancing is a symptom of our culture and from everyone experiencing the stress of our culture. What is the name of this idea by Mate?

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The myth of normal

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25
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We suffer from “_____________-,” which undermines our physical health and emotional well-being.

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Affluenza

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26
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Self help books encourage a ________________ approach to life.

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Narcissistic

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______________ is “the science that studies behavior and the physiological and mental processes that underlie it, and it is the profession that applies the accumulated knowledge of this science to practical problems.”

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Psychology

28
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_______________ is “any overt (observable) response.”

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Behaviour

29
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______________ is “the psychological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life.”

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Adjustment

30
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_______________ is “the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation.”

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Empiricism

31
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The ________________ is “a research method in which the investigator manipulates one (independent) variable under carefully controlled conditions and observes whether any changes occur in a second (dependent) variable as a result.”

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Experiment

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A _______________ variable “is a condition or event that an experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable.”
It is the variable the researcher manipulates in the experiment.

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Independent

33
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The _______________ variable “is the variable that is thought to be affected by the manipulations of the independent variable.”
It is usually a measurement of behavior.

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Dependent

34
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The _________________ “consists of the subjects who receive some special treatment in regard to the independent variable.”

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Experimental group

35
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The _________________ “consists of similar subjects who do not receive the special treatment given to the experimental group.”

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Control group

36
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Does anxiety increase the desire to affiliate?

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Yes

37
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What is the advantage of using experiments?

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Precise control allows cause and effect conclusions to be drawn

38
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What is the disadvantage of experiments?

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There are some variables of interest that cannot, for ethical reasons, be manipulated in an experiment.

39
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A _______________ exists when two variables are related to each other.

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Correlation

40
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A ___________________ is “a numerical index of the degree of relationship that exists between two variables.”

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Correlation coefficient

41
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A correlation coefficient provides two pieces of information: What are they?

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How strongly related two variables are and the direction (positive or negative) of the relationship.

42
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_________________ “indicate that two variables covary in the same direction.” (High scores on variable x are related to high scores on variable y, and low scores on variable x are related to low scores on variable y.)

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Positive Correlations

43
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__________________ “indicate that two variables covary in the opposite direction.” (High scores on variable x are related to low scores on variable y.)

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Negative Correlations

44
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_________________ of the correlation is indicated by the size of the correlation coefficient.

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Strength

45
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____________________ is the “careful observation of behaviour without intervening directly with the subjects”

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Naturalistic observation

46
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__________________ is the “in-depth investigation of an individual participant”

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Case studies

47
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___________________ are “structured questionnaires designed to solicit information about specific aspects of participants’ behaviours”

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Surveys

48
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The advantages of using _____________________ are that they allow us to explore variables not suitable or ethical for manipulation in experimental research.
(e.g., the effect of psychological trauma on males versus females)

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Correlations

49
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Disadvantages of using __________________:
they only tell us that two variables are related, not how the two variables are related.
x could be causing changes in y,
y could be causing changes in x, or
z, a third variable, could be causing changes in x and y.

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Correlations

50
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_____________________ is defined as “individuals’ personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction.”

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Subjective well-being

51
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______________ is the correlation between income and happiness is very weak (between .12 and .20) in the U.S.

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Money

52
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________________ is unrelated to global estimates of happiness.

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Age

53
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________________ has little impact on subjective well-being.

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Gender

54
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Good and bad aspects of ________________ balance each other out in regard to happiness.

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Parenthood

55
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There is no association between IQ and happiness. True or false?

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True

56
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____________________ people enjoy many advantages in society, but the relationship with happiness is very weak.

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Attractive

57
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______________ and happiness have a positive correlation of .32.

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Health

58
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People with __________________ report above-average levels of happiness.

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Social relations

59
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People with sincere _________________ are more likely to be happy.

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Religious beliefs

60
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_____________________ is associated with subjective well-being.

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Leisure time

61
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__________________ nations are more likely to be happy.

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Cultural

62
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____________________: across cultures, for men and women, married people are happier than people who are single or divorced.

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Relationship satisfaction

63
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___________________ satisfaction is strongly related to happiness.

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Job

64
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______________________: extraversion (or positive emotionality) is a strong predictor of happiness, while neuroticism (an anxious temperament) is negatively correlated with happiness.

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Genetics and personality

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