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
Least accurate questioning technique
Closed-ended
Question Transformation
Process of turning an open-ended question into a closed-ended question
Leading Question
Guiding the client towards a particular answer
Deeper Dive
Tell me more…..
2 Components to Deeper Dive Question
Projective & Implied
Projective (Deeper Dive)
What if? If you? What would?
Implied (Deeper Dive)
I wonder if….
You must….
3 Components of Listening
- Paying attention
- Paying attention to what is heard
- Interpreting what is heard
Components of paying attention to the client
- Eye Contact
- Appropriate body language
- Voice Mannerisms
How much eye contact should you make?
70%
Types of Body Language
Kinesics & Proxemics
Kinesics
Physical movement of body
Proxemics
The space or other environmental variables
Voice Mannerism Techniques
Pacing & Mirroring
Mirroring
Adapt to client’s change in tone or volume
Transference
A client’s feelings and communication patterns are affected by unfinished business
Two components of “paying attention to what is heard”
Situational Awareness & Verbal Tracking
Countertransference
A planner’s feelings and communication patterns affected by unfinished business
Financial Socialization
Learning and adopting the beliefs, attitudes, values, and behaviors needed for financial health and personal well-being.
Financial decisions are impacted by _________
Attitudes
Attitudes are impacted by?
Family
Culture
Gender
Socioeconomic Status
Family Systems Theory
All members of the family are connected and a change in one member affects the whole family
Emotional Cutoff
Severing of emotional contact with family members to manage unresolved emotional issues
Societal Emotional Process
Regulates individual behavior on a societal level
Social Learning Theory
Behaviors are learned through observation
Implicit Learning
Observations
Explicit Learning
Direct instructions
Money Genogram
Family tree that identifies the money scripts of members
KMSI
Klontz Money Script Inventory
Money Scripts
Underlying assumptions or beliefs about money that are partially true and developed in childhood and unconsciously followed through childhood
Money Scripts are associated with:
Net Worth
Income
Debt
Socioeconomic status in childhood
Financial Behaviors
4 Money Scripts
- Money Avoidance
- Money Worship
- Money Status
- Money Vigilance
Money Avoidance
Avoid dealing with money while rejecting personal responsibility for one’s own financial health
Money Worship
Believe that money = happiness
Money Status
Believe that net worth = self worth
Money Vigilence
Watchful, alert, and concerned about their finances
Most important financial socialization agents for individuals are?
Parents
Money disorders of compulsive buying, financial dependence, and financial denial are associated with?
Lower income
People who do not know their net worth consistently score higher for _____ _________ scripts than those with lower levels of ____-________ net worth
Money avoidance & Self reported
Three Core Styles
- Individualist
- Collective Harmony
- Honor
Individualist Culture Demography
Western
How is trust built in individualist culture
Between individuals
Individualist Culture Communication
Direct, assertive, clear and engaged
Men and Women in Individualist Culture are?
Equal
Values in Individualist Culture
Openness, transparency, and directness
Collective Harmony Culture demography
Eastern culture
Values in collective harmony culture
Loyalty, obligation, heritage, respect for elders
Relationship types in collective harmony culture
Hierarchical
Communication type in collective harmony culture
Subtle, indirect, and diplomatic
True or false, collective harmony culture do not avoid conflict and direct confrontation
False
Honor Culture demography
LATAM, Mediterranean, India, Middle East
How is trust built in honor culture
Slowly
What is important in honor culture?
Connections
Are men and women treated the same in honor culture?
No
Communication style in honor culture
Expressive and dramatic
Relationship types in honor culture
Hierarchical
How many % of financial planners are white?
80%
7 Steps to Culturally Responsive Financial Therapy
- Know your culture
- Recognize your privilege
- Demonstrate respect
- Distinguish between internal and external parts of a problem
- Validate oppressive experiences
- Do not challenge core culture beliefs
ADDRESSING Acronomyn
Age
Development
Disabilities
Religion
Ethnic
Socioeconomic status
Sexual orientation
Indigenous heritage
National origin
Gender