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| Individual characteristics that account for consistent behaviour, thought and emotion. |
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| To fully fulfill your potential |
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| Big 5 Factors of Personality |
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Openness
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism |
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| Boils down match info to a few homogenous measures. |
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| test to measure the big 5. PIR= Personality inventory revised. |
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| rawshark; always assess ambigious stimuli. no validity or reliability. |
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| Psychological Determinites |
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| 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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| A durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. |
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| include all the diverse theories descended from the work of Freud, which focus on unconscious mental forces. |
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| Creating false but plausabile excuses to justify unacceptable behavior. |
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| attributing ones own thoughts, feelings and motives to another. |
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| is diverting emotional feelings from their original source, to a substitute |
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| exacting he opposite of ones true feelings |
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| Jung's approach to personality |
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| material not within ones conscious awareness because it has been repressed or forgotten |
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| Emotionally charged images and thought forms that have universal meaning. |
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| Adler's approach to personality psych |
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| 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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| the idea that internal mental events, extrenal environmental events and overt behavior all influence one another |
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| refers to ones belief about their ability to perform behaviors that should lead to expected outcomes. |
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| phenomenonological approach |
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| assumes that ones has to appreciate individuals personal subjective experience to fully understand their behavior |
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| Roger's Approach to Personality Theories |
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| degree of disparity between ones self-concept and actual experience |
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| tendency to mold ones interpretation of the past to fit how events actually turned out. |
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| holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological, physiological, and sociocultural factors. |
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| any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well being an that thereby tax ones coping abilities |
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| threatening events that have short durations and a clear endpoint |
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| threatening events that have relatively long durations; no time limit. |
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| when some goal is thwarted |
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| when two or more incompatible motivations or behavioral impulses compete for expressions. |
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| approach-approach conflict |
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| a choice must be made between two attractive goals |
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| avoidance-avoidance conflict |
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| choice must be made between two unattractive goals |
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| approach-avoidance conflict |
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| a choice must be made about whether to pursue a single goal that has both attractive and unattractive aspects. |
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| involves expectations or demands that one behave a certain way |
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| Fredrickson's braoden and build theory of positive emotions |
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| explains how positive emotions promote resilience in the face of stress |
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| general adaption syndrome |
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| a model of the body's stress response consisting of three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion |
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| refers to the active efforts to master, redue, or tolerate demands caused by stress |
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| is a passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events. |
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| any behavior that is intended to hurt someone either physically or verbally |
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| behaving aggresivly causes one to feel less aggressive. |
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| refers to relatively healthful efforts that people make to deal with stressful events. |
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| genuine physical ailments that were thought to be caused in part by stress and other psychological factors |
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