Chapter 15 Second Half Flashcards
According to Maslow, ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved.
Self-actualization
Proposes that faith in one’s worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death
Terror-management Theory
According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
Unconditional Positive Regard
All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question “who am I?”
Self-Concept
Characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
Traits
Questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors
Personality Inventories
Most widely research and clinically used of all personality test. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders.
MMPI
Test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting this that discriminate between groups.
Empirically Derived
Views behavior as influence by the interaction between persons and their social context
Social-Cognitive Perspective
Interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
Reciprocal Determinism
Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
Personal Control
Perception that chance our outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate
External Locus of Control
Perception that one’s controls one’s own fate
Internal Locus of Control
Scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individual and communities to thrive
Positive Psychology
Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.
Spotlight Effect
One’s feelings of his or low self worth
Self-Esteem
Self actualization, self aware, self accepting, open, spontaneous, caring, secure in themselves, unselfish
Abraham Maslow
Believed that in order for self actualization to occur, three conditions are required: genuineness, acceptance, empathy
Carl Rogers
Defined personality in terms of identifiable behavior patterns, less concerned explaining traits than with describing them
Gordon Allport
Statistical procedure used to identify clusters of traits that go together
Factor Analysis
Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion
The Big Five
Positive psychology
Martin Seligman
Hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
Learned Helplessness
Scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individual and communities to thrive
Positive Psychology
Readiness to perceive oneself favorably
Self-serving Bias
