Psychology Book Test 3 Flashcards
Type A Personality
Competitive, impatient, and ambitious
Resistance Stage
Body attempts to return to a normal state by restoring spent energy and repairing damage; arousal remains high; anger, fatigue
Rationalization
Use of self-justifications to explain away unacceptable behaviors
Pleasure Principle
The demand for instant gratification without regard to social rules or customs
Maslow
Developed the self-actualization principle
Standard Scores
Scores that represent an individual’s relative deviation from the mean of the standardized sample
Allport
Said personality traits are inherited but influenced by experience
Individualistic Culture
A culture that emphasizes individual identity and personal accomplishments
Acculturative
Demands faced by immigrants in adjusting to a host culture
Personality
The relatively stable constellation of psychological characteristics and behavioral patterns that account for our individuality
Internal Locus Control
Rewards or reinforcements in life are a direct consequence of their own actions
Basal Cell Carcinoma
Most common form of skin cancer
Multiple Approach-Avoidance
Involves two or more goals, each with compelling positive and negative characteristics
Collectivistic Culture
A culture that emphasizes people’s social roles and obligations
Karen Horney
Studied basic anxiety (children feeling isolated and helpless) and basic hostility (deep form of resentment toward parents)
Distress
Unpleasant state of physical or mental pain or suffering
Genital Stage
Puberty
People seek sexual intimacy
Oral Stage
Birth-18 months
Put things in mouth, clingy, passive
Approach-Approach
Two positive but mutually exclusive goals exist
Phallic Stage
3-6 years old
Oedipus/Electra complex
Fixations
Constellations of personality traits characteristic of a particular stage of psychosexual development, resulting from either excessive or inadequate gratification
Traumatic Stressors
Potentially life-threatening events
Walter Mischel
Said behavior is influenced by situational variables ad person variables
Encoding Strategies
Personal perceptions of events