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Test 3 Flashcards

1
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Needlessly postponing task until some future time

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Procrastination

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2
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Time we can use any way we want

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Discretionary time

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3
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The way that people are aware of the passage of time

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Time perception

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4
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Internal “clock” that operates in 24-hour cycles

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Circadian rhythms

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5
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The study of the vital statistics of human populations

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Demographics

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6
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Rates are dropping

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Infant mortality

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7
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Both parents are working outside of the home

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Dual income

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8
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Both parents work outside of the home and both have made long term commitments to their careers

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Dual careers

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9
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2 people taking 1 position and sharing the job and wages

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Job sharing

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10
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When children come back to live with their parents

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Boomeranging

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11
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The middle aged people balancing taking care of their children and their older parents

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Sandwich generation

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12
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  • can’t stop thinking about work, doing work
  • work is always the most pleasurable part of life
  • have trouble sleeping, relaxing, being alone or with family
  • not organized or productive
  • adversely affects relationships
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Workaholism

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13
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A job expands to fill the time available to accomplish the task

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Parkinson’s law

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14
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  • also known as the 80-20 rule

- 20% of the time allotted to a task usually produces 80% of the results

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Pareto principle

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15
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  • the non-specific response of the body to demands made upon it
  • is subjective
  • not all is bad
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Stress

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16
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-“father” of stress research

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Hans Selye

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17
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Involves things like fear and anxiety

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Distress

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18
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New experiences, challenge, competition

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Eustress

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19
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Situations or events that cause stress

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Stressors

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20
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Cumulative effect of many stresses building up at one time

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Stress overload

21
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  • the balance or level of stress that one is comfortable with
  • combination of habit and everyday expectations, and an appropriate amount of adventure and newness
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Comfort zone

22
Q

-stresses and expectations that we place upon ourselves. Demands and standards that we set for ourselves.

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Internal stress

23
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3 types

  • acute major stress like a car accident
  • ongoing, role-related stress like a policeman or Doctor
  • lifetime trauma like the tornadoes
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External stress

24
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One that is predictable

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Normative stressor events

25
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One that you can not anticipate

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Non-normative stressor events

26
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  • describes people who are able to cope well with stress
  • one who has a sense of control over his life, realizes that change is part of life and that they have what it takes to cope with change
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Psychological hardiness

27
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Time urgency, impatient, tense, restless, hostile, negative, suspicious, distrustful, cynical, aggressive, competitive

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Type a personality

28
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Not overwhelmed by sense of time urgency, not impatient, can relax, cooperative rather than competitive. Goal-oriented and ambitious, and confident.

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Type b personality

29
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  • list your short-term goals
  • make a daily to-do list
  • allow time for sleep, rest and relaxation
  • avoid procrastination
  • if you need to gain control, try to change only a little at a time
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6 steps to effective time management

30
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Make a to-do list

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Time management tools

31
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  • relieves stress
  • saves time
  • properly kept, eliminates need to evaluate what needs to be done next
  • avoids the major inefficiency of forgetting something
  • allows you to use unexpected free time to fullest advantage
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Advantages of keeping a daily to-do list

32
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  • prioritize
  • line through a task as you complete it
  • anything not lined through at the end of the day, put on the next day’s list
  • update list daily
  • include as much detail as possible
  • keep your list handy
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How to organize your to-do list

33
Q
  • task may seem overwhelming
  • don’t know where to start
  • Fear of failure
  • Other reasons that you can identify?
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Reasons that people procrastinate

34
Q
  • Having fun
  • being too busy
  • not being busy enough
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Factors that influence time perception

35
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  • liners-separable
    • very optimistic
  • procedural-traditional
    • completing the task is more important than the time it takes
  • circular-traditional
    • pessimistic view
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3 models of time perception and characteristics of each

36
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  • the us population is growing older
  • the number of households is increasing, but the number of people in household is decreasing
  • the divorce rate is declining
  • families in the US have become increasingly mobile
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Various population statistics highlighted in class

37
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  • fertility rate
  • mortality rate
  • immigration
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3 factors which affect population numbers

38
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  • women are bearing children later in life
  • teen pregnancies declining
  • better health care
  • by 2019, US increases in population will be higher from immigration than from birth rates
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Various trends with regard to births and death rates and immigration

39
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Households are more mobile now

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Trends regarding population age, households, divorce, mobility, ect.

40
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  • one parent stay at home and not work outside the home
  • extended-family or neighborhood support
  • day care centers
  • company day care offerings
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Various ways to manage child care

41
Q
  • differences in values
  • differences in perception
  • role perceptions
  • difference in methods
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Sources of conflict regarding balancing work and family

42
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  • on-site day care and elder care
  • time off for family responsibilities (FMLA-type leave, sick leave,flextime)
  • other types of onsite services (wellness, educational,seminars, ect.)
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Family supportive workplace policies

43
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Parents
School
Employers

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Where do we learn our work ethic?

44
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  • tends to be more polite, responsible, conservative
  • strong sense of discipline and order
  • tends to resist social change
  • embraces change in the workplace
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Characteristics of one with strong work ethic

45
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  • can’t stop thinking about work, doing work
  • work is the Mose pleasurable part of life
  • having trouble sleeping, relaxing, being alone or with with family
  • not organized or productive
  • adversely affects relationships
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Characteristics of a workaholic

46
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  • seldom finish a task, un dependable
  • often lets down co-workers or employees
  • is a way of resisting growing up and accepting responsibility
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Characteristics of a procrastinator

47
Q
  • alarm reaction (fight or flight)
  • resistance (the action taken)
  • exhaustion (the rest after the event)
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Physical pattern of response to emergency-related stress

48
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  • Children worry most about their parents rather than themselves
  • Signals of child stress
    • crying often
    • Appetite changes
    • Can’t sleep
    • Complaining of physical ailment that keeps them form going to school
  • Parents figure it out and reassure a child that we had a fight but no divorce and we are sick but not going to die
  • Don’t force a child to be around adults that they feel uncomfortable around during this time
  • Be flexible in their schedule
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Children and stress

49
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The conscious control of our time to fulfill our needs

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Time management

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