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46 Cards in this Set
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Stress |
How we appraise an event influences how much stress we experience and how we effectively respond |
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Stressor |
Things that pushes our buttons (anything that we appraise as stress) |
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General Adapation Syndrome (GAS) |
The bodies adaptive response to stress in general |
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3 stages of General Adapation Syndrome |
1. Alarm-reaction 2. Resistant-how we deal with stressor 3.Exhustion |
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Psychoneuroimmunolgy |
Study of how a person's immune system and health is effected by the combination of psychological, neural, and endocrine process. the study of the effect of the mind on health and resistance to disease. |
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What causes high blood pressure |
High Stress Coronary heart disease |
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Sympathetic Nervous system |
Prepares the body for fight or flight response |
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Type A personality |
Competitive, hard driven, impatient, varbally aggressive, anger prone people |
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Problem Focus Coping |
Attempting to reduce stress directly involves changing the stressor or the way one reacts with stressor |
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Learned hopelessness |
Hopelessness and passive resignation animals and people learn when unable to avoid repeated adverse events |
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Self control |
Ability to control impulses and delay short term gratification for greater long term rewards |
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Pessimism |
Anticipation of negative outcomes |
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Social Support System |
Promotes happiness and health |
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Aerobic Exercise |
Sustained activity that increases heart and lung fitness Reduces depression and anxiety |
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Faith Factor |
Lessens immune system suppression fewer stress hormones better health |
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Duration of emotions |
Is overestimated and resilience is underestimated |
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Social Psychology |
The study of how individuals think about, influence, and relate to one another |
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Social norms |
Normative Social Influence Results from a person desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval UNWRITTEN RULES OF SOCIAL |
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Personal Control |
Power not to conform to the group |
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Non-Conformity |
Promotes individualism |
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Social Loafing |
Tendency of people in a group to exert less effect when pooling the efforts toward attaining a common goal the when individually accountable |
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Consensus |
Makes poor decisions |
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Prejudice |
Unfair and negative attitude toward a group and its members |
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Discrimination |
Unjustified negative behavior towards a group and its members |
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Outgroup |
Anybody who is differ that we dont favor |
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What does violent vvideogames do? |
increase Aggression, decrease empathy, prime aggressive thoughts |
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Ingredients of liking someone |
1. Proximity-being geographically near 2. Similarity-based on shared attitudes, beliefs, and interests (top 3) |
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Attribution |
Analyzing others behavior |
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Fundamental Attribution |
Explaining our behaviors and others at the same time |
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Personality |
Individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting |
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Psychodynamic Theory |
Freud a view that explains personality in terms of conscious and unconscious forces, such as unconscious desires and beliefs. Ex. commonly hold that childhood experiences shape personality |
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ID |
Pleasure Prinicple |
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Projection |
Disguising ones own threaten implies by attributing them to others |
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What type of test is a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
Projective test |
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What test use ink blots? |
The Rorschach Test |
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages |
1. Oral 2 Anal 3. Phallic 4. Latency 5. Genital |
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Body Need |
Maslow's pyramid Physiological needs food and water Self actualization |
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Person Centered Perspective-Card Roger |
Humans are primed to reach their potential in a growth-promoting environment qualities that nurture growth |
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Traits Theory |
A stable and enduring pattern of behavior |
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What kind of test can show test can show your traits? |
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Personality Inventory |
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Personality Traits |
Stabilize with age |
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What does social cognitive do? |
Assesses human behavior in situations |
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Self image |
Internal view of one's Personality |
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Self-Esteem |
Is based on self image |
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Secure self esteem |
Relies less on other people's evaluations |
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Collectivism |
Giving priority to the goals one's group often extended family or work group and defining their identity accordingly |
