Chapter 15- 2nd Half

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Humanistic perspective

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Focus on the ways of healthy growth potential

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Terror-management theory

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Proposes that faith in ones worldview and the pursuit of self esteem provides protection against a deeply rooted fear of death

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Self-actualization

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The process of fulfilling our potential

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Abraham Maslow

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Proposed that we are motivated by a hierarchy of needs

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Carl Rogers

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Believed that a growth promoting climate required 3 conditions
Genuineness
Acceptance
Empathy

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Unconditional positive regard

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Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance towards another person

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Self concept

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves

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Trait perspective

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Characteristic patterns of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports

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Gordon allport

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Defines personality in terms of identifiable behavior patterns

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Personality inventories

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Questionnaire (t/f) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings or behaviors

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MMPI (Minnesota multiphase personality inventory)

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Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Objective test

Used to identify depression, anxiety, paranoia and other psychological disorders

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Empirically derived test

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Test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups

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Social cognitive perspective

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context

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Reciprocal determinism

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Interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

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Personal control

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Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

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External locus of control

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The perception that Change our outside forces beyond ones personal control determine ones fate

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Internal locus of control

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Perception that one controls ones own fate

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Positive psychology

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Scientific study of optimal human functioning

Aims to discover and promote strengths and. Urges that enable individual and communities to thrive

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Spotlight effect

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance and mistakes

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Self esteem

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Ones feeling of high or low self worth

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Factor analysis

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Statistical procedure used to identify clusters of traits that go together

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The big 5

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Openness
Conscientiousness 
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

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Learned helplessness

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The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated negative events

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Self-serving bias

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A readiness to perceive oneself favorably