Chapter 1 vocab

Question 1

Adjustment

Answer 1

refers to the psychological processes through which people manage or cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life.

Question 2

Affective forecasting

Answer 2

efforts to predict one’s emotional reactions to future events

Question 3

Correlation

Answer 3

exists when two variables are related to each other.

Question 4

Empiricism

Answer 4

is the premise that knowledge should be acquired through observation.

Question 5

Hedonic Adaptation

Answer 5

occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, is changed

Question 6

Narcissism

Answer 6

is a personality trait marked by an inflated sense of importance, a need for attention and admiration, a sense of entitlement, and a tendency to exploit others.

Question 7

Overlearning

Answer 7

is continued rehearsal of material after you have first appeared to master it.

Question 8

Subjective well-being

Answer 8

—individuals’ personal assessments of their overall happiness or life satisfaction.

Question 9

Knowledge

Answer 9

Power

Question 10

Awareness

Answer 10

Power squared

Question 11

Critical Thinking

Answer 11

The art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improve it

Question 12

Neuroplastcity

Answer 12

The development of new pathways in the brain based on experience and the interpretation and/or perception of those experiences

Question 13

Case Study

Answer 13

is an in-depth investigation of an individual subject.