Chapter 3: Locke's Goal-Setting Theory - Source of Coping and Strength

Question 1

It is a level of performance proficiency that one wishes to attain within a specific time period.

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Goal

Question 2

It predicts that people will channel effort toward accomplishing their goals, which will in turn affect performance.

Answer 2

Goal-setting theory

Question 3

It is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.

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Stress

Question 4

It is considered a good stress which is a result from a situation or activity that you find motivating or inspiring.

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Eustress

Question 5

It is a sensory stimulus that has no direct consequences or effect on the person.

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Neustress

Question 6

Any situation, activity, or individual that gives you mental or emotional strain.

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Stressor

Question 7

These are situations or activities that you consider negative, harmful, or threatening.

Answer 7

Distress

Question 8

These are strategies you use to deal with real or imagines problems to protect yourself against negative emotions.

Answer 8

Coping

Question 9

It targets on controlling or changing the source of stress which include strategies like employing problem-solving techniques, time management, getting relevant social support.

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Problem-focused coping

Question 10

It involves lowering, if not eliminating, negative emotional responses which include strategies such as distraction, talking out or verbalizing your problem, prayer, and meditation.

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Emotion-focused strategy

Question 11

It involves a conscious intellectual activity of managing stressful situations where you use your mind to combat stress-inducing thoughts.

Answer 11

Cognitive coping

Question 12

A cognitive coping strategy wherein you change the way you experiences or events, ideas, concepts, and emotions to find alternatives that are more positive.

Answer 12

Reframing

Question 13

It is the state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances arising from the person’s social and environmental relationships.

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Social stress

Question 14

It occurs when a person feels he or she is not accepted by or does not belong to society. The social bond is very weak.

Answer 14

Egoistic suicide

Question 15

It occurs when a person ends his or her life for others.

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Altruistic suicide

Question 16

It is linked to disillusionment and disappointment.

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Anomic suicide

Question 17

It was a concept Durkheim developed to describe a state where social and/or moral norms were confused, unclear, or simply not present.

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Anomie

Question 18

These are important, specific experiences that interrupt an individual’s usual activity/routine that he/she needs to adjust to.

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Life events

Question 19

These are problems that have been occurring for some time; the person’s social role is strained or threatened.

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Chronic strains

Question 20

This refers to a sociological perspective that focuses on the language and symbols to help give meaning to life experiences.

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Symbolic interactionism

Question 21

It is a person’s ability to take in the expectations and projections of others and take these as the person’s own.

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Introjection