Adjusting to Modern Life Flashcards
________________ is the ability to reflect inwardly and be aware of internal states and interactions/relationships with others.
Self-Awareness
Self awareness is both”______________”.
A tool and a goal
_______________ is associated with being more prosocial.
Self-awareness
_________________ is a way to help reduce psychological distress.
Self-awareness
_________________ 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.
Self awareness
__________________ is developing an understanding of others and appreciation for the interconnectivity of people and the natural world.
Social awareness
__________________ can positively impact relationships with family, friends, community, and environment, can better take other perspectives, better conflict resolution skills, and value diversity.
Social-awareness
______________ is the idea that modern technology has provided us with an abundance of time-saving devices.
Paradox of Progress
What are some examples in our life of the paradox of progress?
Dishwashers, trains, busses, cars, microwaves, social media, etc.
The iGeneration was born after __________.
1995
13-14 year olds send an average ___ texts a day
45
17-19 year olds send an average ___ texts a day
74
Twenge (in Dingwall & Goodes, 2017) warned over ___ hours a day on social media can have negative mental health consequences
2
Too many choices leads to “________________” and struggles with decisions.
Choice overload
Modern technology provides us with economic abundance and “_________________.”
Possession overload
Hartmann (2004) argued our current culture has a poverty of: ________________, ___________________, and __________________.
Spirit
Time
Security and support
Excellent self-help books do exist. However, many are not effective. True or false?
True
The message self-help books use is too vague to be useful, as they are dominated by “______________”
Psychobabble
Parents providing a high-stress environment affects their children and can cause autism ADHD, disorders, etc. True or false?
True
Children that are stressed early in life, have bad impulse regulation. True or false?
True
Children that grow up in a stressful environment are more prone to addiction, true or false?
True
Stress can be triggered by _________________.
Uncertainty, lack of information, and loss of control
There a 4 things that Karl Marx claimed are alienated within our culture. What are they?
Work, nature, from other people, and ourselves
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?
The myth of normal
We suffer from “_____________-,” which undermines our physical health and emotional well-being.
Affluenza
Self help books encourage a ________________ approach to life.
Narcissistic
______________ 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.”
Psychology
_______________ is “any overt (observable) response.”
Behaviour
______________ is “the psychological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life.”
Adjustment
_______________ is “the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation.”
Empiricism
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.”
Experiment
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.
Independent
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.
Dependent
The _________________ “consists of the subjects who receive some special treatment in regard to the independent variable.”
Experimental group
The _________________ “consists of similar subjects who do not receive the special treatment given to the experimental group.”
Control group
Does anxiety increase the desire to affiliate?
Yes
What is the advantage of using experiments?
Precise control allows cause and effect conclusions to be drawn
What is the disadvantage of experiments?
There are some variables of interest that cannot, for ethical reasons, be manipulated in an experiment.
A _______________ exists when two variables are related to each other.
Correlation
A ___________________ is “a numerical index of the degree of relationship that exists between two variables.”
Correlation coefficient
A correlation coefficient provides two pieces of information: What are they?
How strongly related two variables are and the direction (positive or negative) of the relationship.
_________________ “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.)
Positive Correlations
__________________ “indicate that two variables covary in the opposite direction.” (High scores on variable x are related to low scores on variable y.)
Negative Correlations
_________________ of the correlation is indicated by the size of the correlation coefficient.
Strength
____________________ is the “careful observation of behaviour without intervening directly with the subjects”
Naturalistic observation
__________________ is the “in-depth investigation of an individual participant”
Case studies
___________________ are “structured questionnaires designed to solicit information about specific aspects of participants’ behaviours”
Surveys
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)
Correlations
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.
Correlations
_____________________ is defined as “individuals’ personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction.”
Subjective well-being
______________ is the correlation between income and happiness is very weak (between .12 and .20) in the U.S.
Money
________________ is unrelated to global estimates of happiness.
Age
________________ has little impact on subjective well-being.
Gender
Good and bad aspects of ________________ balance each other out in regard to happiness.
Parenthood
There is no association between IQ and happiness. True or false?
True
____________________ people enjoy many advantages in society, but the relationship with happiness is very weak.
Attractive
______________ and happiness have a positive correlation of .32.
Health
People with __________________ report above-average levels of happiness.
Social relations
People with sincere _________________ are more likely to be happy.
Religious beliefs
_____________________ is associated with subjective well-being.
Leisure time
__________________ nations are more likely to be happy.
Cultural
____________________: across cultures, for men and women, married people are happier than people who are single or divorced.
Relationship satisfaction
___________________ satisfaction is strongly related to happiness.
Job
______________________: extraversion (or positive emotionality) is a strong predictor of happiness, while neuroticism (an anxious temperament) is negatively correlated with happiness.
Genetics and personality
