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PSYCH 110 CH 12 & 13
Personality, Stress, Coping, and Health
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/16/2010

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Personality
Definition
Individual characteristics that account for consistent behaviour, thought and emotion.
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Self-Actualization
Definition
To fully fulfill your potential
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Big 5 Factors of Personality
Definition
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
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Factor Analysis
Definition
Boils down match info to a few homogenous measures.
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NEOPIR
Definition
test to measure the big 5. PIR= Personality inventory revised.
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Projective test
Definition
rawshark; always assess ambigious stimuli. no validity or reliability.
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Psychological Determinites
Definition
Nothing is a chance event, leads to unconscious
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Factors that Affect Severity of Stressors
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Cognitive Appraisal, Duration, Imminence, predictability, perceived control, social support, personal relevance, personality.
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personality trait
Definition
A durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations.
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Psychodynamic Theory
Definition
include all the diverse theories descended from the work of Freud, which focus on unconscious mental forces.
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Rationalization
Definition
Creating false but plausabile excuses to justify unacceptable behavior.
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Projection
Definition
attributing ones own thoughts, feelings and motives to another.
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displacement
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is diverting emotional feelings from their original source, to a substitute
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reaction formation
Definition
exacting he opposite of ones true feelings
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Analytical Psychology
Definition
Jung's approach to personality
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personal unconscious
Definition
material not within ones conscious awareness because it has been repressed or forgotten
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Archetypes
Definition
Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning.
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Individual Pscyhology
Definition
Adler's approach to personality psych
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determinism
Definition
behavior is fully governed by environmental stimuli
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Social learning/cognitive theory
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Bandura's approach to personality psychology
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reciprocal determinism
Definition
the idea that internal mental events, extrenal environmental events and overt behavior all influence one another
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Self-efficacy
Definition
refers to ones belief about their ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes.
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phenomenonological approach
Definition
assumes that ones has to appreciate individuals personal subjective experience to fully understand their behavior
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Person-Centered theory
Definition
Roger's Approach to Personality Theories
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incongrunce
Definition
degree of disparity between ones self-concept and actual experience
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hindsight bias
Definition
tendency to mold ones interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out.
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biopsychosexual model
Definition
holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, physiological, and sociocultural factors.
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stress
Definition
any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well being an that thereby tax ones coping abilities
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acute stressors
Definition
threatening events that have short durations and a clear endpoint
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chronic stressors
Definition
threatening events that have relatively long durations; no time limit.
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frustration
Definition
when some goal is thwarted
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conflict
Definition
when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expressions.
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approach-approach conflict
Definition
a choice must be made between two attractive goals
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avoidance-avoidance conflict
Definition
choice must be made between two unattractive goals
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approach-avoidance conflict
Definition
a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects.
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pressure
Definition
involves expectations or demands that one behave a certain way
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Fredrickson's braoden and build theory of positive emotions
Definition
explains how positive emotions promote resilience in the face of stress
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general adaption syndrome
Definition
a model of the body's stress response consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
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coping
Definition
refers to the active efforts to master, redue, or tolerate demands caused by stress
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learned helplessness
Definition
is a passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events.
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aggression
Definition
any behavior that is intended to hurt someone either physically or verbally
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catharsis
Definition
behaving aggresivly causes one to feel less aggressive.
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constructive coping
Definition
refers to relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events.
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psychosomatic diseases
Definition
genuine physical ailments that were thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors
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