Summaries Parts IV, V and VI

Question 1

prefronal cortex activity

Answer 1

associated with fluid reasonign

Question 2

P-FIT

Answer 2

individual differences are due to parieto-frontal brain regions

Question 3

neural efficency

Answer 3

intelligent people have less glucose expenditure in the brain

Question 4

emotional content

Answer 4

substantive perceptions and understadnings of a person

Question 5

emotional styles

Answer 5

characteristic ways in which people experience emotions

Question 6

characteristics of hostility

Answer 6

frequent resentment
rude
critical 
antagonistic
related to coronary heart disease

Question 7

direct model

Answer 7

extraversion and neuroticism influence affect

Question 8

indirect model

Answer 8

extraversion and neuroticism influence lifestyle

Question 9

social comparison

Answer 9

5 year olds

comparing oneself to a refrence group

Question 10

private self-concept

Answer 10

hidden side of self

Question 11

objective self-awareness

Answer 11

seeing yourself as an object of others attention

Question 12

fragmented self-control

Answer 12

no consistent story for your narrative self

higher risk for borderline

Question 13

defensive pessimism

Answer 13

facing a challenge

expecting to do poorly

Question 14

self-handicapping

Answer 14

deliberately increasing probability of failing

Question 15

self-complexity

Answer 15

the more the better

but only in stressful situations

Question 16

two theories of matching

Answer 16

1. complementary needs theory
2. attraction similarity theory

1 is correct

Question 17

expectation about extraverts

Answer 17

positive affect

Question 18

expectation about agreeableness

Answer 18

social support

Question 19

expectation about aggressiveness

Answer 19

hostility form strangers

Question 20

expectations about neuroticism and openness

Answer 20

fewer feelings of rejection

more confidence

Question 21

minimalist position

Answer 21

sex differences are small

have no consequences

Question 22

maximalist position

Answer 22

sex differences are as large as other differences

should no tbe trivialized, are meaningful

Question 23

temperemental sex differences in children

Answer 23

girls have better inhibitory control
better peceptual sensitivity
higher surgency

Question 24

Big Five sex differences

Answer 24

women higher in agreeableness (small to medium)
higher neuroticism (medium)
lower on aggression (medium to large)

Question 25

three further sex differences

Answer 25

men have higher self-esteem
more thing- than people-oriented
difference in jealousy

Question 26

two approaches to test Big Five across cultures

Answer 26

1. transport and test

2. lexical replication

Question 27

not culturally replicable

Answer 27

openness / intellect

Question 28

general adaption syndrome

Answer 28

1. alarm - fight or flight
2. resistance - resouces used
3. exhaustion stage - susceptability to illness