Test #3

Question 1

Stress

Answer 1

Is process by which we perceive and respond to certain events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Question 2

Catastrophes

Answer 2

Unpleasant large scale events

Question 3

Significant life changes

Answer 3

Personal life transitions

Question 4

Daily hassles and social stress

Answer 4

Day to day challenges

Question 5

General adaption syndrome

Answer 5

Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

Question 6

Tend and befriend

Answer 6

Nurturing and banding together

Question 7

Psychoneuroimmunologists

Answer 7

Study mind-body interactions including stress related physical illness (stress induced headaches)

Question 8

Stress and cancer

Answer 8

Stress doesn’t create cancer cells but if you are stressed and don’t have healthy immune system cancer cells can’t be destroyed

Question 9

What play a role in heart disease?

Answer 9

Stress and personality

Question 10

Type A personality

Answer 10

Competitive hard driven impatient verbally aggressive angry more likely to have a heart attack

Question 11

Type B

Answer 11

Easy going relaxed less likely to have heart problems

Question 12

Type D

Answer 12

People who surprises negative emotions to avoid social disapproval

Question 13

Catharsis

Answer 13

The idea of releasing aggressive energy relieves aggressive urge

Question 14

Coping

Answer 14

Reduced stress using emotional , cognitive or behavioral methods

Question 15

Problem focused coping

Answer 15

Attempting to reduce stress directly -by changing the stressor or the way we interact that stressor

Question 16

Emotion-focused coping

Answer 16

Attempting to reduce stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending to emotional needs related to our stress reaction

Question 17

External locus of control

Answer 17

That chance or outside forces control their fate

Question 18

Internal locus of control

Answer 18

Believe they are in control of their own destiny

Question 19

Pessimists

Answer 19

Expects things to go badly

Question 20

Optimism

Answer 20

Expect to have control

Question 21

Aerobic exercise

Answer 21

Sustained activity that increases heart and lung fitness may also reduce anxiety or depression

Question 22

Mindfulness meditation

Answer 22

Relaxing and silently attending to your inner state without judging it

Question 23

Positive psychology

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Scientific study of human functioning with the goals of discovering and promoting strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive

Question 24

Three pillars of positive psychology

Answer 24

Positive well being
Positive character
Positive groups and communities

Question 25

Adaption level phenomenon

Answer 25

Happiness is relative to our own experiences

Question 26

Relative deprivation principle

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Happiness is related to others success

Question 27

Personality

Answer 27

An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

Question 28

Unconscious

Answer 28

A reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts which we are unaware of

Question 29

Free association

Answer 29

In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

Question 30

ID

Answer 30

Reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives basic sexual and aggressive drives

Question 31

Ego

Answer 31

The largely unconscious "executive" part of personality that operates on the reality principle

Question 32

Superego

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Focuses on ideal behavior strives for perfections

Question 33

Oral stage

Answer 33

Pleasure is the mouth

Question 34

Anal stage

Answer 34

Pleasure focuses on bladder and bowel elimination

Question 35

Phallic stage

Answer 35

Pleasure zone is genitals

Question 36

Latency

Answer 36

A phase of sexual feeling

Question 37

Genital stage

Answer 37

Maturation of sexual interests

Question 38

Defense mechanisms

Answer 38

Are the egos protective methods of reducing anxiety by indirectly and unconsciously distorting reality

Question 39

Denial

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Refusing to believe

Question 40

Displacement

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Shifting sexual and aggressive impulses towards something else

Question 41

Rationalization

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Offering self justifying explanations in place of the real more threatening unconscious reason for action

Question 42

Regression

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Retreating to more infantile psychosexual stage

Question 43

Reaction formation

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Switching unacceptable impulses by attributing them to others

Question 44

Alfred Adler

Answer 44

Believed that much of our behavior is driven by efforts to conquer childhood inferiority feelings

Question 45

Karen Horney

Answer 45

Childhood anxiety triggers our desire for love and security

Question 46

Carl jung

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Collective unconscious

Question 47

Projective test

Answer 47

Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamics

Question 48

Thematic apperception test

Answer 48

Projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through stories of scenes

Question 49

Rorschach test

Answer 49

Set of ink blots test

Question 50

Abraham Maslow

Answer 50

Hierarchy of needs, self actualization , self transcendence

Question 51

Carl rogers

Answer 51

Unconditional positive regard, self concept

Question 52

Traits

Answer 52

Characteristic patterns of behavior or ways of feeling and acting

Question 53

Personality inventory

Answer 53

Questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors

Question 54

MMPI

Answer 54

Most used personality test. Originally developed to find emotional disorders

Question 55

Ocean

Answer 55

``` Openness Consciousness Extraversion Agreeableness Neuroticism ```

Question 56

Person situation controversy

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Behavior influenced by interaction of our inner disposition with our environment

Question 57

Reciprocal determinism

Answer 57

The interaction influences behavior, internal, cognition, and environment

Question 58

Self

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In contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality.

Question 59

Spotlight affect

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Overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders

Question 60

Self serving bias

Answer 60

A readiness to perceive oneself favorably