Week 4

Question 1

Self enhancement is about trying to feel good about ourselves, it can result in ____ ____ which makes it easier to get up in the morning.

Answer 1

Self enhancement is about trying to feel good about ourselves, it can result in unrealistic optimism which makes it easier to get up in the morning.

Question 2

Self enhancement includes five impression management strategies, what are they?

Answer 2

Downward social comparison

Self serving bias

BIRGing

CORFing

Self-handicapping

Question 3

Self serving bias

Answer 3

We attribute successes to internal causes and failures to external causes.

Question 4

BIRGing

Answer 4

Basking In Reflected Glory

We exaggerate our closeness with successful people.

Question 5

CORFing

Answer 5

Cutting Off Reflected Failure

Tendency to dissociate ourselves with others who fail.

Question 6

Self-handicapping

Answer 6

We are afraid to look bad so we use two strategies

1) We set up excuses for bad behaviour
2) We sabotage in advance

Question 7

The Self Compassion Model

Answer 7

Perspective: Seeing our suffering in context

Shared Humanity: We all suffer at times

Being One’s Own Best Friend: Kind, supporting, and caring

Question 8

Using Self-Compassion to Thrive

Answer 8

Starts with self awareness, we need to reflect and change expectation for self. Then compassion, forgiving ourselves. Then self care.

Question 9

Self Acceptance Narrative

Answer 9

This is what happened
This is what I did to survive it
This has been the cost
This is what I learned
This is how I respond to life now

Question 10

Benefits of Stress

Answer 10

Satisfy need for change and stimulation
Promote personal growth or self-improvement
Inoculation

Question 11

Stress

Answer 11

Any circumstance in our life that has the potential to threaten our well being.

Question 12

Mediators of stress

Answer 12

Perceived control

Self-efficacy

Question 13

Negative stress occurs when we perceive

Answer 13

an inability to cope with stress.

Question 14

Positive stress occurs when we perceive

Answer 14

an ability to cope with stress.

Question 15

Primary appraisal of stress

Answer 15

Appraising whether an event or situation is relevant and/or threatening to us

Question 16

Secondary appraisal of stress

Answer 16

Perceiving whether we can cope with the stressor.

Question 17

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 17

We are most successful at a performance task if we have a moderate amount of arousal, we have faster reaction times and better recall or retrieval.

Question 18

Ambient Stress

Answer 18

Chronic environment conditions that are negative and place demands on you.

Excessive noise
Heat
Pollution
Crowding
Risk of disaster
Poverty and violence