Midterm Review Flashcards
Exterior Finance
Includes the mechanics of money
Interior Finance
Describes how clients relate to money emotionally
Other words for interior finance?
Life Planning, Financial Life, Planning, or Financial Planning Done Well
What does interior future include?
Dreams and authentic goals
What is interior present?
Living authentically with awareness
What does interior past consist of?
Beliefs, feelings, and stories
What does FCAC stand for?
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
5 Core Components of Financial Well-Being
Financial Behaviors
Economic Factors
Psychological Factors
Social Factors
Knowledge & Experience Factors
Overall Financial Well-Being Score Components
Meeting Commitments
Feeling Financially Comfortable
Resilience for the Future
True or False - Financial well-being has a stronger relation to behaviors than economic factors
True
True or False - Canadians that actively save have higher levels of financial well-being than those with similar incomes who don’t
True
What variable was the most strongly associated with higher financial well-being for the “struggling somewhat” group?
Not borrowing for daily expense
True or False - Research shows that financial education rarely works
True
Values
What a person finds to be important and wants to be doing with his or her life
Can values be achieved?
No
Wheel of Life Components
Career
Family and Friends
Significant Other/Romance
Fun and Recreation
Health
Money
Personal Growth
Physical Environment
Life Satisfaction
Refers to a person’s thoughts about his or her life
How is life satisfaction measured?
By the Cantril Ladder
Doubling your income will increase your life satisfaction by ___ on a __-point scale
0.5 & 10
Emotional Well-Being
Refers to the emotional quality of an individual’s everyday experience
Additional Income about _______ had no relationship with how parents felt
$75,000 ($80,000 inflation adj.)
Additional income above _______ had no relationship with how people felt
$40,000 ($50,000 inflation adj.)
What has the strongest relationship with income?
Life satisfaction
Hedonic Treadmill
Humans have a tendency to return to a relatively stable level of happiness despite changes in their circumstances
Who created the Hedonic Treadmill Theory?
Dr. Thomas Gilovich
8 Principles to Spend Happier
- Buy experiences
- Help others
- Buy small pleasures
- Buy less unnecessary insurance
- Pay now and consume later
- Think about what you’re NOT thinking of
- Beware of comparison shopping
- Following the herd
Future Anhedonia
Believing that our emotional responses will be less intense in the future than in the present
Study using magnetic resonance imaging - participants who were given an opportunity to donate money showed activity in the areas of their brains associated with _________ _______
Receiving rewards
True or False - There are no studies to date that contradict the finding that emotional well-being does not increase above $75,000
False
Why is there a weak relationship between income and happiness?
More Money = More Hours
More Hours = More Stress
More Money = More Adaptation
True or False - People whose main goal require earning money are less satisfied with their lives on average
True
True or False - The farther away an experience lies in time, the more abstractly we tend to think about it
True
How and when was the modern day credit card born?
In 1949, a wealthy business didn’t have cash to pay at a restaurant and was mortified when his wife had to pay
True or False - Humans are the most social animals on the planet
True
True or False - Humans are the animals whose complex social networks include unrelated people
True
4 Questioning Techniques
- Open-ended
- Closed-ended
- Leading questions
- Deeper dive
Open-ended Questions
When, why, who, how, tell me, where, what
Most accurate questioning technique
Open-ended
Closed-ended
Are you, do you, is this, is that
Yes or No Answers