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Motivation, Emotion, and Personality Flashcards

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drive reduction

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physiological need creates aroused tension (drive) that motivates you to satisfy the need (driven by homeostasis: equilibrium)

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primary drive

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unlearned drive based on survival (hunger, thirst)

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secondary drive

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learned drive (wealth or success)

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incentive theory

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driven by external rewards

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intrinsic motivation

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inner motivation – you do it because you like it

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extrinsic motivation

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motivation to obtain a reward (trophy)

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Festinger

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originated the theory of cognitive dissonance

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optimum arousal is also called:

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Yerkes Dodson Law

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Yerkes Dodson Law (optimum arousal)

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humans seek optimum levels of arousal

easier tasks require more arousal, harder tasks need less

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Physiological (level of MHoN)

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first level
food, water, rest

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Safety (level of MHoN)

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second level
security

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Love/Belonging (level of MHoN)

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third level
intimate relationships, friends

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Esteem (level of MHoN)

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fourth level
feeling of accomplishment

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Self-actualization (level of MHoN)

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achieving one’s full potential

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Hormones that signal to eat

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orexin, Ghrelin

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Hormones that signal to stop eating

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PYY, leptin

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lateral hypothalamus

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stimulated makes you hungry; lesioned you will never eat again. (I’m LATE for lunch. I’m hungry. The LATEral hypothalamus makes you hungry.)

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ventromedial hypothalamus

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when stimulated you feel full, when destroyed you eat eat eat eat

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what does obesity increase the risk of

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heart attack, hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes

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set point

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control systems dictates how much fat you should carry – every person is different

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anorexia

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weight loss of at least 15% of ideal weight, distorted body image

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causes of eating disorders

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overly critical parents, perfectionistic tendencies, societal ideals

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bulimia

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usually normal body weight, go through a binge-purge eating pattern (eat massive amounts, then throw up)

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hypothalamus

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stimulation increases sexual behavior, destruction leads to sexual inhibition

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sexual response pattern

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excitement phase, plateau, orgasm, refractory period (resolution phase) (cannot “fire” again until reset, guys only)

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Alfred Kinsey

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created Kinsey scale of homosexuality; studies lacked a representative sample

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James Lange

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theory of emotion:
stimulus -> arousal (SNS) -> emotion

(older theory)

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Canon Bard

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theory of emotion:
stimulus -> arousal / emotion simultaneous

(older theory)

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Schacter Two Factor

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theory of emotion:
stimulus -> arousal -> label/emotion simultaneous

(new theory)

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Lazarus Appraisal

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theory of emotion:
stimulus -> label -> arousal / emotion
(LL – Lazarus Labels First)

(new theory)

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Eckman’s theory

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there are six universal emotions
happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, disgust, fear
(think Inside Out + surprise)

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facial feedback hypothesis

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being forced to smile will make you happier (cartoon study with pencil in mouth)

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Display rules

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social group or culture’s norms of how to express certain emotions

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industrial / organizational psych

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psych of the work – employee recruitment, training, satisfaction, productivity

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ergonomics / human factors

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intersection of engineering and psych – focuses on safety and efficiency of human-machine interactions

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Hawthorne effect

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productivity increases when workers are made to feel important (teacher teaches when principal comes in)

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Theory X Management

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manager controls employees, enforces rules. good for lower-level jobs

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Theory Y Management

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manager gives employees responsibility, looks for input. good for high level jobs

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problem-focused coping

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solving or doing something to alter the course of stress (planning, acceptance)

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emotion-focused coping

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reducing the emotional distress (denial, disengagement)

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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three phases of a stress response:
alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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who came up with GAS theory

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Selye

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Alarm (stage of GAS)

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body/you freak out in response to stress

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Resistance (stage of GAS)

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body/you are dealing with stress

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Exhaustion (stage of GAS)

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body/you cannot take any more, give up

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approach-approach conflict

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win-win situation; conflict is which win you have to choose

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approach-avoidance conflict

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win-lose situation; outcome has positive and negative aspects (marriage)

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avoidance-avoidance conflict

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lose-lose; both outcomes are bad but you have to choose one (clean your room or do your homework)

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multiple approach-avoidance conflict

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two or more win-lose situations; conflict is which to choose (college A is good for major but not scholarship, college B is good for scholarship but not major)

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preconscious

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unconscious at a particular moment but not repressed (like phone numbers)

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unconscious

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unavailable to awareness

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id

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our hidden true animalistic wants and desires – operates on the pleasure principle, all about rewards and avoiding pain (devil on your shoulder – entirely unconscious)

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superego

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our moral conscious (angel on your shoulder; both conscious, preconscious, and unconscious)

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ego

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reality principle, has to deal with society, stuck mediating between the id and superego (you! – conscious & preconscious)

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when are defense mechanisms used

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when ego can not mediate between the id and superego

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repression

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push memories back into the unconscious mind (sexual abuse is too traumatic to deal with so you repress it)

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projection

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attribute personal shortcomings and faults onto others (man who wants to have an affair accuses his wife of having one)

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denial

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refuse to acknowledge reality (refuse to believe you have cancer)

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displacement

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shift feelings from an unacceptable object to a more acceptable one (can’t yell at a teacher, go home and yell at a dog)

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reaction formation

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transform unacceptable motive into his opposite (acting aggressively nice when you dislike someone)

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regression

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transform into an earlier development period in the face of stress (during exam week you start to suck your thumb)

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rationalization

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replace a less acceptable reasoning with a more acceptable one (don’t get into your college – justify it was a bad college anyway)

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sublimation

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replace unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one (teen with angry urges joins a wrestling team)

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Oral stage

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0-18 months
pleasure focuses on mouth
id forms

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Anal stage

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18-36 months
pleasure involves eliminative functions
ego forms

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Phallic stage

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3-6 years
pleasure focuses on genitals
superego forms

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Oedipal complex

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young boys learn to identify with their father out of fear of retribution (castration anxiety)

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Electra complex

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young girls learn to identify with their mother because they cannot with their father (penis envy)

Part of Phallic Stage

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latency stage

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6 years to puberty
psychic time out – personality is set

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Genital stage

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adulthood
sexual reawakening – oedipal and electra “feelings” are repressed, turn sexual wants onto an appropriate person

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Fixation

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can become “stuck” in an earlier stage – influences personality (oral stage smokes/drinks, anal is “anal retentive”, phallic is promiscuous)

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good about Freud

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1st theory on personality
sparked psychoanalysis

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psychoanalysis

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analyze a person’s unconscious motives

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free association

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say aloud everything that comes to mind without hesitation

(psychoanalysis)

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transference

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looks for feelings to transfer to psychologist

(psychoanalysis)

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dream interpretation

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analyze the manifest and latent content

(psychoanalysis)

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projective tests

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ambiguous stimuli shown to look at your unconscious motives (awful and very subjective)

(psychoanalysis)

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thematic apperception test (TAT)

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tell a story about a picture (when someone has a tattoo (TAT) you ask what it means)

(projective test – psychoanalysis)

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Rorschach inkblot test

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show an inkblot

(projective test – psychoanalysis)

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Carl Jung

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Neo-Freudian
believed in the collective unconscious (shared inherited reservoir of memory – explains common myths across civilizations and time)

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Karen Horney

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Neo-Freudian
said personality develops in the context of social relationships, NOT sexual urges
(security not sex is motivation, men get womb envy)

82
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factor analysis

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used to find traits in people
statistical procedures used to identify similar components

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what is wrong with Big Five / CANOE

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ignores the role of the situation in behavior

84
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what is good about Big Five / CANOE

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identifying traits gives us perspectives about careers, relationships, health

85
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MMPI

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
personality inventory – used to assess and diagnose mental health disorders

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Carl Rogers

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talked about our self-concept (idea of who we are). your self-concept is the center of your personality.

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actual (social) self

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what others see

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ideal (true) self

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what you WANT to be

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positive self-concept

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makes us perceive the world positively (optimist)

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negative self-concept

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makes us feel dissatisfied and unhappy

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reciprocal determinism

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suggests that a person’s behavior both influences and is influenced by personal factors and the social environment. dynamic interplay between personal, environmental, and behavioral factors.

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self-efficiacy

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belief that one can succeed, so you ensure you do

93
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what is wrong with social-cognitive perspective

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too specific, cannot generalize

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