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Ch 7 General Cognition based tech of Coping Flashcards

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Cognition

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One’s thoughts, thinking patterns, mental processes

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Cognitive Psychology

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Studies the raw workings of mind and Mental Processes

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Strategic Thinking

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Purposeful plan on how to cope

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Maladaptive Coping Strategies

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Hopelessness and wishful thinking

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Intrusion

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Frequently recurring negative thoughts

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Self-blame

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Poor coping strategy involving negative evaluations of oneself

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Rumination (Maladaptive)

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Excessively thinking about an issue

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Catastrophizing

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Imagining and suspecting the worst outcome MUST occur in a situation.

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Positive Reappraisal

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Put a positive twist on a seemingly adverse event

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Coping Flexibility

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Whether you have ONE basic approach or VARIOUS strategies to deal with difficult situations

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Differentiation

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Ability to look at different situations and distinguish Similarities and Differences

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Integration

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Weighing Pro/ Con

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Attributions

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Personal explanations for behavior

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Internal cause

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Personality is the reason for the behavior or stress

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External cause

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Situational or Environmental factors explain one’s behavior or stress.

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Theory of Correspondent Inference

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We infer others dispositions as they correspond to their behavior.

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Analysis of Variance Model of Attribution (ANOVA)

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2 types of Attributions (Covariation and Configuration) used to understand behavior depending on info available.

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Covariation

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Process where we consider Consistency, Distinctiveness, and Consensus to attribute one’s behavior to internal or external causes

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Consistency

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Acts a certain way on a situation

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Distinctiveness

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Whether someone acts differently in different situations

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Consensus

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Whether others behave similarly in the same situation as the individual.

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Configuration

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Attributions that are made using Causal Schemata

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Fundamental Attribution error

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we overestimate the importance of personality and underestimate the role of situational influences.

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Actor- Observer Bias

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We often blame others action on personality VS ours on the situational influences.

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Self - serving Bias

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we attribute success to Internal causes and failures to external

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Sadder but Wiser effect

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Depressed people are sadder but wiser because they don’t showcase attritional bias.

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Ultimate attribution error

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Giving the benefit of the doubt to your group but not others.

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Causal attribution

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Our understanding of what factors caused an event from the subjective viewpoint of the person making the attribution

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Selective incidence attribution

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Why me?

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Responsibility attributions

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Did I or someone else cause the event to occur?

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Theory of Cognitive adaptation(3 concepts)

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Coping involves:

1) Search for meaning in experience
2) Attempt to gain mastery over event and life.
3) enhance self-esteem

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Optimism

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View world in positive fashion.

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Personal control

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sense that I can take effective action to produce positive and avoid negative outcomes.

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Learned Helplessness

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no longer attempting to control the environment after believing its futile.

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Thought Suppression

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attempting to consciously not think about some issue

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Behavioral Control (exercise)

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Take action as a means of coping

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Informational Control

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Acquiring knowledge as means of understanding one’s problems

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Retrospective Control

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Attempts to understand why certain events have occurred after the fact

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Cognitive Control

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Using thought-based strategies as a means to cope

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Positive Illusions

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Unrealistic inflated views about oneself, optimism, and perceptions of control that allow us to face moderately to severely stressful events

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Assumptive Worlds Model

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How we come to view ourselves and our world plays an integral role in our everyday functioning and actions during traumatic events

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Schemas

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A mental representation of some area of knowledge

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Scripts

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How certain events are generally supposed to function

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Hope

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Process of thinking about one’s goals coupled with the motivation to move toward them and achieve them

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Pathways thinking

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When an individual believes that it is possible to produce one or more ways to achieve a goal

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Agentic Thinking

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Sparks and Energizes an individual to continue pursuit of his goal.

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Cognitive Flexibility

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Ability to modify views during the reasoning process.

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Hopelessness Theory of Depression

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Hopelessness is a cause of Depression. You believe negative events are likely to occur instead of desirable events.

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Characteristics of High Hope Individuals

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Many Goals, Specific Goals, Realistic Goals, Goals require effort, Focus on Relevant Information, Multiple path ways to goal, High motivation, View obstacles as challenges, Confidence, Learn from mistakes and victories.

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Characteristics of Low Hope

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Few goals, Vague goals, Unrealistic goals, Goals are easy to attain, Rumination on negative information, Low motivation, low confidence, easily distracted, discouraged by obstacles.

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Hope Theory

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Hope is the process of thinking of goals and having the motivation to achieve them.

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Heuristics

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Mental rules of thumb for how one can seemingly solve a problem with minimal effort.

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Relaxing

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Seeking a sense of relief from ones current emotional or physical state

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Meditation

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Provides great relaxation due to muscle and breathing techniques coupled with an intense focus on a certain stimuli

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Biofeedback

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Info that psychologists give individuals about how their bodies physiologically change and respond to various situations and cognitions by using electromechanical devices

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Hypnosis

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Guided Focus on an individuals attention on imagined experiences

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