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Ch9-11 Flashcards

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The term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

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Stress

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The study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions thoughts and behavior on the immune system

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Psychoneuroimmunology(PNI)

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The effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health & well being.

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Eustress

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Taking out ones frustrations on someone of stress that people need to promote health & well being

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Displaced aggression

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two desirable goals.

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Approach - approach conflict

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two undesirable goals

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Avoidance - avoidance conflict

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Conflict occurring when a person must choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects.

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Approach - avoidance conflict

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The three stages of the body’s physiological reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance and exhaustion.

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general adaptation syndrome(GAS

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The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections & injuries.

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Immune system

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Disease involving failure of the pancreas to secrete enough insulin, necessitating medication usually diagnosed before the age 40 & can be associated with obesity

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Type 2 diabetes

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Person who is ambitious, time conscious extremely hard working and tends to have high levels of hostility & anger as well as being easily annoyed.

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Type a personality

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Person who is relaxed and laid back , less driven & less competitive than type A & slow to anger

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Type B personality

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Pleasant but repressed, person who tends to internalize his or her anger and anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult

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Type C personality

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Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats proteins & carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Glucagon

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A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats proteins

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Insulin

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Actions that people can take to master, to tolerate, reduce or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

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Changing ones behavior to match that of other people

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Conformity

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Changing ones behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change

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Compliance

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That person should do something for the other in return

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Norm of reciprocity

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A process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action in order to justify their investment in it

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Entrapment

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Sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a persons behavior does not correspond to that persons attitudes

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Cognitive dissonance

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The forming of the first knowledge that a person has concerning another person

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Impression formation

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The process of explaining ones own behavior and the behavior of others.

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Attribution

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Cause of behavior attributed to internal factors such as personality or character.

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Dispositional cause

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The part of the self concept including ones view of self as a member of a particular social category

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Social identity

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The tendency of one’s expectations to affect one’s behavior in such a way as to make the expectations more likely to occur

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Intimacy passion commitment

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Sternbergs 3 components of love

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Lose awareness of their individuality and seem to hand themselves over to the mood and actions of the crowd

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Deindividuation

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Prosocial behavior that is done with no expectation of reward and may involve the risk of harm to oneself

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Altruism

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Referring to the effect hat the presence of other people has on the decision to help or not help, with help becoming less likely as the number of bystanders increases.

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Bystander effect

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The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think feel and behave

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Personality

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The enduring characteristics in which a person is born

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Temperament

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Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

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Unconscious mind

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Part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious

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ID

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Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious rational and logical

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Ego

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Part of the personality that acts as a moral center

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Superego

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Part of the superego that produces guilt, depending on how acceptable behavior is

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Conscience

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Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child.

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Psychosexual stages

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Five stage occurring in the first year of life on which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict

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Oral stage

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Second stage occurring from about 1 to 3 years of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and the toilet training is the source of conflict

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Anal stage

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Third stage occurring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelings.

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Phallic stage

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Fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways

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Latency

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When puberty does begin, the sexual feelings that were once repressed can no longer be ignored.

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Genital stage

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Freud’s term for both the theory of personality and therapy based on it

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Psychoanalisys

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Individuals expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.

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Self - efficacy

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People who assume that their own actions and decisions directly affect the consequences they experience

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Internal locust of control

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People who assume that their lives are more controlled by powerful others, luck, or fate.

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External locust of control

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People who are outgoing and sociable

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Extravert

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People who prefer solitude and dislike being the center of attention.

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Introvert

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The tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again. Each time given to the same people.

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Reliability

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The degree to which a test actually measured what it’s supposed to measure.

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Validity

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