Exam 2 Flashcards

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What are the 3 universal psychological needs according to the basic psychological needs theory?

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Relatedness: meaningful relationships, sense of belonging
Competence: feeling capable, mastery, effective in actions
Autonomy: in control of behavior, choices, ownership

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What are the aspects of Iso-Ahola’s Model of Leisure Behavior?

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escaping personal environments
escaping interpersonal environments
seeking personal rewards
seeking interpersonal rewards

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3
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What is perceived freedom?

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perceiving one’s actions as voluntary

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What are the two types of control?

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Primary: directly influencing one’s world
Secondary: maintaining control by accepting or adjusting to situation

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Langer and Rodin’s control study?

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old people, one group responsible for taking care of self and room, other group nurses did
30% of residents in second group died 18 months later compared to 15% in 1st group

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What is learned helplessness?

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learning that your action do not impact the world around you

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what is the psychological reactance theory

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threat to perceived freedom –> aversive state –> psychological reactance: motivation to restore freedom

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What is intrinsic motivation

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people like the activity, feels good

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What are the 3 types of intrinsic motivation identified by Vallerand and Losier?

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IM towards knowledge, towards accomplishment, towards experiencing stimulation

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What are the categories in the Organismic Integration Theory?

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Intrinsic: activity itself
Integrated: part of identity
Identified: activity is important
Introjected: internal pressures
External: external to activity
Amotivation: lack of motivation

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What is an example of how to measure extrinsic motivation?

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BREQ questionnaire

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What did they find in the articles that tested the relationship between different types of motivation and exercise behavior?

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more self-determined forms of motivation predicted greater exercise behavior

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What is a good strategy for changing motivation

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Autonomy support

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What is autonomy support

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creating an environment that allows individuals to feel that they have control over their behavior and experiences

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What is the over-justification effect

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When rewarding an activity that the individual already enjoyed, they attribute origin of behavior to external source, rather than internal

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What are some consequences of external rewards

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behavior becomes contingent on reward
reward becomes goal, not the behavior itself
locus of causality shifts from internal to external
evidence for over-justification effect

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What is personality

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enduring patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior that are expressed in different circumstances
Consistent behavior across time and situations

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What are the two aspects of personality

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structure: what makes it up
individual differences: how do people differ

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What are 3 important terms related to personality

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Needs: achievement, play, affiliation
Temperament: general style of behavior, energy, alertness, emotions
Traits

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What are traits?

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emotional, motivation, cognitive, and behavioral tendencies that represent underlying dimensions of personality
How many? How measure? Where from?

21
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How many personality traits are there?

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tons

22
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What are the three categories of traits?

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Broad/universal traits: components
Specific traits: types of human behavior
Leisure-specific traits: leisure contexts

23
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What is the lexical approach to discovering universal personality traits?

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clump similar adjectives together and some clumps might be highly correlated with each other. Can clump together using statistical procedures (factor analysis)

24
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What are the big 5 personality traits?

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Neuroticism
Extraversion
Openness
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
OCEAN

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What is neuroticism?

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Anxiety, angry hostility, depression, impulsiveness, vulnerability to stress
Emotionally stable vs. neurotic

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What is extraversion?

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Warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, excitement-seeking, positive emotions
Introverted vs. extroverted

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What is openness?

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Fantasy, feelings, ideas, values, actions, aesthetics
Conventional vs. openness

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What is aggreeableness?

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Trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, tendermindedness
Hostile vs. agreeable

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What is conscientiousness?

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Competence, order, dutifulness, achievement-striving, self-discipline, deliberation
Disorganized vs. conscientious

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How do we measure personality traits?

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Self-report questionnaires
Continuums are better than categories
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator- 16 types
- poor reliability and validity, test-retest problems

31
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Where do traits come from?

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Nature and nurture

32
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what is self as entertainment and what are the 3 components?

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the capacity / ability of people to fill their free time with activities that are satisfying
3 components:
Self: believe they can structure free time
Mind play: using imagination
Environment: going places, seeking out others

33
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What are the social psychological processes present in leisure?

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imitation/modeling
conformity
persuasion
social comparison

34
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When are you more likely to model the behavior of another?

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if they are:
competent, physically attractive, similar to target

35
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What is imitation?

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people imitate the behavior of others
siblings, parent, teacher, uncle, aunty, friends

36
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What is conformity?

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a change in behavior as a result of the real of imagined influence of other people

37
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When can conformity be good?

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in ambiguous situations
crisis situations
experts are present

38
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What is persuasion?

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deliberate attempts to affect someone’s behavior

39
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What is the elaboration likelihood model?

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2 routes of persuasion
central: arguments
Peripheral: things not directly related to the message itself

40
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When is a central route of persuasion more useful?

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person is interested, motivated, able or an expert

41
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When is the peripheral route of persuasion more useful

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person is disinterested, amotivated, not experts

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What is the self-evaluation maintenance model

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People are motivated to have positive views of themselves
Relevant domains: success of others is threatening and can reduce self esteem
Irrelevant domains: not threatening, can enhance esteem