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Psychology Book Test 3 Flashcards

1
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Type A Personality

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Competitive, impatient, and ambitious

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Resistance Stage

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Body attempts to return to a normal state by restoring spent energy and repairing damage; arousal remains high; anger, fatigue

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Rationalization

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Use of self-justifications to explain away unacceptable behaviors

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4
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Pleasure Principle

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The demand for instant gratification without regard to social rules or customs

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5
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Maslow

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Developed the self-actualization principle

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Standard Scores

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Scores that represent an individual’s relative deviation from the mean of the standardized sample

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7
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Allport

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Said personality traits are inherited but influenced by experience

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Individualistic Culture

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A culture that emphasizes individual identity and personal accomplishments

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Acculturative

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Demands faced by immigrants in adjusting to a host culture

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Personality

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The relatively stable constellation of psychological characteristics and behavioral patterns that account for our individuality

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Internal Locus Control

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Rewards or reinforcements in life are a direct consequence of their own actions

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12
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Basal Cell Carcinoma

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Most common form of skin cancer

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13
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Multiple Approach-Avoidance

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Involves two or more goals, each with compelling positive and negative characteristics

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14
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Collectivistic Culture

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A culture that emphasizes people’s social roles and obligations

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15
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Karen Horney

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Studied basic anxiety (children feeling isolated and helpless) and basic hostility (deep form of resentment toward parents)

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16
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Distress

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Unpleasant state of physical or mental pain or suffering

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17
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Genital Stage

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Puberty

People seek sexual intimacy

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18
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Oral Stage

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Birth-18 months

Put things in mouth, clingy, passive

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19
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Approach-Approach

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Two positive but mutually exclusive goals exist

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20
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Phallic Stage

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3-6 years old

Oedipus/Electra complex

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21
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Fixations

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Constellations of personality traits characteristic of a particular stage of psychosexual development, resulting from either excessive or inadequate gratification

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22
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Traumatic Stressors

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Potentially life-threatening events

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23
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Walter Mischel

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Said behavior is influenced by situational variables ad person variables

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24
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Encoding Strategies

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Personal perceptions of events

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25
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Julian Rotter

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Came up with the Locus of Control

26
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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Selye’s term for the three-stage response of the body to persistent or intense stress

27
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Hypothalamus

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Small endocrine gland located in the midbrain that coordinates the response to stress

28
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Preconscious

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The part of the mind whose contents can be brought into awareness through focused attention

29
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Surface Traits

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Can be inferred from behavior

30
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Source Traits

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Deep level of personality, must be inferred based on underlying relationships

31
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Hans-Eysenck

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Extraverted-Neurotic
Extraverted-Stable
Introverted-Neurotic
Introverted-Stable

32
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Sublimation

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Channeling of unacceptable impulses into socially constructive pursuits

33
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Antibodies

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Protein molecules that serve to mark antigens for destruction by specialized lymphocytes

34
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Corticosteroids

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Adrenal hormones that increase the body’s resistance to stress by increasing the availability of stored nutrients to meet the increased energy demands of stressful events

35
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Reciprocal Determinism

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Cognitions, behaviors, and environmental factors influence each other

36
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Outcome Expectations

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Predictions of the outcomes of behavior

37
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Efficacy Expectations

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Predictions you hold about your ability to perform tasks or behaviors you set our to accomplish

38
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Adrenal Cortex

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The outer layer of the adrenal glands that secretes corticosteroids

39
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Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone

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Pituitary hormone that activates the adrenal cortex to release corticosteroids

40
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Alarm Stage

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First stage of the general adaptation syndrome involving mobilization of the body’s resources to cope with an immediate stressor

41
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Approach-Avoidance

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A goal has both positive and negative qualities

42
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Creative Self

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Aware of itself and organizes goal-seeking behavior

43
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Inferiority Complex

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Children feel inferior and want to compensate

44
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Adrenal Medulla

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Inner part of the adrenal glands that secretes adrenaline and noradrenaline

45
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Unconditional Positive Regard

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Valuing another person as having intrinsic worth

46
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Conditional Regard

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Valuing a person only when the person’s behavior meets certain standards

47
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Five Factor Model

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Dominant trait model of personality

  1. Neuroticism
  2. Extraversion
  3. Openness
  4. Agreeableness
  5. Conscientiousness
48
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Antigens

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Substances that are recognized by the immune system as a foreign to the body and that induce it to produce antibodies to defend against them

49
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Psychological Hardiness

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A cluster of personality traits associated with an increased resilience to stress

50
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Self Ideals

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Our idealized sense of who or what we should be

51
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Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal Axis

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The integrated system of endocrine glands involved in the body’s response to stress

52
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Exhaustion Stage

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Heart rate and respiration decrease

Disease of adaptation (kidney, heart, depression)

53
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Latency Stage

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Ages 6-12

Sexual impulses are dormant

54
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Psychoanalytic Theory

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Freud’s theory of personality and behavior are shaped by unconscious forces and conflicts

55
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Corticotrophin-Releasing Hormone

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A hormone released by the hypothalamus that induces the pituitary gland to release adrenocorticotrophic hormone

56
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Anal Stage

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18mos-3 years

57
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Avoidance-Avoidance

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Both opposing goals are unpleasant

58
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Id

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Instinctual impulses

59
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Reaction Formation

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Behaving in a way that is opposite of one’s true wishes or desires

60
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Interleukin-6

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Associated with heart disease, diabetes, and cancer

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