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Ch 7 General Cognition based tech of Coping Flashcards

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Cognition

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One’s thoughts, thinking patterns, mental processes

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Cognitive Psychology

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Studies the raw workings of mind and Mental Processes

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Strategic Thinking

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Purposeful plan on how to cope

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Maladaptive Coping Strategies

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Hopelessness and wishful thinking

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Intrusion

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Frequently recurring negative thoughts

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Self-blame

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Poor coping strategy involving negative evaluations of oneself

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Rumination (Maladaptive)

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Excessively thinking about an issue

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Catastrophizing

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Imagining and suspecting the worst outcome MUST occur in a situation.

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Positive Reappraisal

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Put a positive twist on a seemingly adverse event

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Coping Flexibility

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Whether you have ONE basic approach or VARIOUS strategies to deal with difficult situations

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Differentiation

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Ability to look at different situations and distinguish Similarities and Differences

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Integration

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Weighing Pro/ Con

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Attributions

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Personal explanations for behavior

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Internal cause

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Personality is the reason for the behavior or stress

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External cause

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Situational or Environmental factors explain one’s behavior or stress.

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Theory of Correspondent Inference

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We infer others dispositions as they correspond to their behavior.

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Analysis of Variance Model of Attribution (ANOVA)

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2 types of Attributions (Covariation and Configuration) used to understand behavior depending on info available.

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Covariation

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Process where we consider Consistency, Distinctiveness, and Consensus to attribute one’s behavior to internal or external causes

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Consistency

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Acts a certain way on a situation

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Distinctiveness

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Whether someone acts differently in different situations

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Consensus

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Whether others behave similarly in the same situation as the individual.

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Configuration

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Attributions that are made using Causal Schemata

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Fundamental Attribution error

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we overestimate the importance of personality and underestimate the role of situational influences.

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Actor- Observer Bias

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We often blame others action on personality VS ours on the situational influences.

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Self - serving Bias
we attribute success to Internal causes and failures to external
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Sadder but Wiser effect
Depressed people are sadder but wiser because they don't showcase attritional bias.
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Ultimate attribution error
Giving the benefit of the doubt to your group but not others.
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Causal attribution
Our understanding of what factors caused an event from the subjective viewpoint of the person making the attribution
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Selective incidence attribution
Why me?
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Responsibility attributions
Did I or someone else cause the event to occur?
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Theory of Cognitive adaptation(3 concepts)
Coping involves: 1) Search for meaning in experience 2) Attempt to gain mastery over event and life. 3) enhance self-esteem
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Optimism
View world in positive fashion.
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Personal control
sense that I can take effective action to produce positive and avoid negative outcomes.
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Learned Helplessness
no longer attempting to control the environment after believing its futile.
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Thought Suppression
attempting to consciously not think about some issue
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Behavioral Control (exercise)
Take action as a means of coping
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Informational Control
Acquiring knowledge as means of understanding one's problems
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Retrospective Control
Attempts to understand why certain events have occurred after the fact
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Cognitive Control
Using thought-based strategies as a means to cope
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Positive Illusions
Unrealistic inflated views about oneself, optimism, and perceptions of control that allow us to face moderately to severely stressful events
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Assumptive Worlds Model
How we come to view ourselves and our world plays an integral role in our everyday functioning and actions during traumatic events
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Schemas
A mental representation of some area of knowledge
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Scripts
How certain events are generally supposed to function
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Hope
Process of thinking about one's goals coupled with the motivation to move toward them and achieve them
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Pathways thinking
When an individual believes that it is possible to produce one or more ways to achieve a goal
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Agentic Thinking
Sparks and Energizes an individual to continue pursuit of his goal.
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Cognitive Flexibility
Ability to modify views during the reasoning process.
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Hopelessness Theory of Depression
Hopelessness is a cause of Depression. You believe negative events are likely to occur instead of desirable events.
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Characteristics of High Hope Individuals
Many Goals, Specific Goals, Realistic Goals, Goals require effort, Focus on Relevant Information, Multiple path ways to goal, High motivation, View obstacles as challenges, Confidence, Learn from mistakes and victories.
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Characteristics of Low Hope
Few goals, Vague goals, Unrealistic goals, Goals are easy to attain, Rumination on negative information, Low motivation, low confidence, easily distracted, discouraged by obstacles.
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Hope Theory
Hope is the process of thinking of goals and having the motivation to achieve them.
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Heuristics
Mental rules of thumb for how one can seemingly solve a problem with minimal effort.
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Relaxing
Seeking a sense of relief from ones current emotional or physical state
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Meditation
Provides great relaxation due to muscle and breathing techniques coupled with an intense focus on a certain stimuli
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Biofeedback
Info that psychologists give individuals about how their bodies physiologically change and respond to various situations and cognitions by using electromechanical devices
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Hypnosis
Guided Focus on an individuals attention on imagined experiences

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