Chapter 15- 2nd Half Flashcards
Humanistic perspective
Focus on the ways of healthy growth potential
Terror-management theory
Proposes that faith in ones worldview and the pursuit of self esteem provides protection against a deeply rooted fear of death
Self-actualization
The process of fulfilling our potential
Abraham Maslow
Proposed that we are motivated by a hierarchy of needs
Carl Rogers
Believed that a growth promoting climate required 3 conditions
Genuineness
Acceptance
Empathy
Unconditional positive regard
Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance towards another person
Self concept
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves
Trait perspective
Characteristic patterns of behavior or a disposition to feel and act as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports
Gordon allport
Defines personality in terms of identifiable behavior patterns
Personality inventories
Questionnaire (t/f) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings or behaviors
MMPI (Minnesota multiphase personality inventory)
Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Objective test
Used to identify depression, anxiety, paranoia and other psychological disorders
Empirically derived test
Test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups
Social cognitive perspective
Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context
Reciprocal determinism
Interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
Personal control
Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
External locus of control
The perception that Change our outside forces beyond ones personal control determine ones fate
Internal locus of control
Perception that one controls ones own fate
Positive psychology
Scientific study of optimal human functioning
Aims to discover and promote strengths and. Urges that enable individual and communities to thrive
Spotlight effect
Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance and mistakes
Self esteem
Ones feeling of high or low self worth
Factor analysis
Statistical procedure used to identify clusters of traits that go together
The big 5
Openness Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism
Learned helplessness
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated negative events
Self-serving bias
A readiness to perceive oneself favorably
