Chapter 14 Personality in Context

Question 1

Defensive pessimism

Answer 1

A coping strategy in which people use negative thinking as a way of coping with stress

Question 2

Hot versus cool attentional focus

Answer 2

The focusing of one thought on emotionally arousaing (hot) versus less arousing (cool) aspects of a situation or stimulus

Question 3

Independent versus interdependent views of self

Answer 3

Alternative implicit beliefs about self-concept in which the self is viewed either as possessing a set of psycholigical qualities that are distinct of other people (independent self) or is viewed in terms of roles in family, social, and community relationships (interdependent self)

Question 4

Knowledge-and-appraisal personality architecture (KAPA)

Answer 4

Theoretical analysis of personality architecture that distinguishes two aspects of cognition in peersonality functioning: enduring knowledge and dynamic appraisals of the meaning of encounters for the self

Question 5

Optimism

Answer 5

A coping strategy that features relatively realistic expectations about ones capabilities

Question 6

Personality architecture

Answer 6

A term to describe the overall design and operating characteristics of those psychological systems that underlie personality functioning

Question 7

Rejection sensitivity

Answer 7

A thinking style characterised by ancious expectations of rejection in interpersonal relationships

Question 8

Socioemotional selectivity theory

Answer 8

Theroetical analysis by Carstensen that examines the ways in which social motivations shift across the course of life