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Coping Flashcards

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Coping

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The management of taxing/stressful situations.

Psychological needs - meeting them helps increase ability to cope/resilience.

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Depression

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A state of mental disturbance, characterised by negative affect.

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Emotional Expression

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The display of emotions through facial features/behaviour.

Ekman; Izard - some expressions can be seen universally.
Evolutionary theories.

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Emotions: Functions

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To communicate feelings, socially interact, develop, help us cope.

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Explanatory Style

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Term used for the explanations given following the experience of good/bad events.

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Flow

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A mental state derived from the full immersion, focus, involvement and success in an activity. Csikzentmihalyi.

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Goals

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Something you’re trying to achieve.

Assigned/self-set goals.

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Goal Orientation

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Refers to the motivational framework used to achieve goals.

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Happiness

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A mental state of positive affect.

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Hardiness (Resilience)

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Psychological resilience, positive capacity for people to cope with stress and catastrophe. Related to maintenance - the prevention of ill health.

Psycological needs - Werner & Smith.

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Hope

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The belief that we can find a path to our goal, by using our skills, abilities or persistence.

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Implicit Theories of Self

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Refers to strategies used to experience our world - coping, reacting, changing.

Linked to implicit theories of the world, mastery/performance strategies.

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Learned Helplessness

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An expectation of failure as a result of past events, due to uncontrollability/unpredictability. Accompanied by a negative cognitive/behavioural state.

Three components: contingency, cognition, behaviour.

Seligman & Maier - shuttlebox dogs.
Hiroto - people; noise.

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Life Satisfaction

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A measure of subjective well-being.

Psychological needs - meeting them leads to satisfaction, vitality and empowerment.

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Mastery

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Linked to goal orientation. Involved with the development of competence. Happiness from competence.

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Optimism

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A positive attitude or disposition that good things will happen, regardless of abilities.

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Pain

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Psychological construct resulting from tissue damage or emotional reversal.

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Performance

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Linked to goal orientation. Approach - completing a goal for rewards. Avoidance - avoiding goals for fear of failure.

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Pessimism

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A negative attitude/disposition that bad things will happen, regardless of abilities.

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Placebo

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A substance with no medical effect.

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Recovery

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The return to normal health, physical/mental. Linked to maintenance - the prevention of ill health.

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Self-belief/concept

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The view of oneself formed through the direct experience and evaluations adopted by significant others.

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Self-efficacy

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Judgements about one’s abilities.

Links to psychological needs - competence, empowerment.

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Stress

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Pressure/tension experience in the absence of coping.

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Emotion Theories

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Evolutionary.

James-Lange.

Cannon-Bard.

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James-Lange theory of emotion

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Emotions are the result of physiological changes made by the autonomic nervous system.

Hohman found people had reduced emotions after spinal cord damage.

Laird found Ps rated cartoons funnier when smiling.

Valins found male Ps rated females more attractive when listening to a fake faster heartbeat.

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Evolutionary theory of emotion

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Ekman; Izard hold that emotions/expressions are universal.

Ekman found at least 6 universally recognised emotions.

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Cannon’s Criticisms of James-Lange theory

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Each emotion needs a distinct pattern of neural activity.

Maranon states physiology alone is insufficient to cause emotional change.

Total separation of the viscera from the CNS did not prevent emotional experiences, only reduced.

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Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

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Physiological arousal and production of emotions occur simultaneously, and independently of each other.

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