Ch9-11

Question 0

The term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

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Stress

Question 1

The study of the effects of psychological factors such as stress, emotions thoughts and behavior on the immune system

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Psychoneuroimmunology(PNI)

Question 2

The effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health & well being.

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Eustress

Question 3

Taking out ones frustrations on someone of stress that people need to promote health & well being

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Displaced aggression

Question 4

Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two desirable goals.

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Approach - approach conflict

Question 5

Conflict occurring when a person must choose between two undesirable goals

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Avoidance - avoidance conflict

Question 6

Conflict occurring when a person must choose a goal that has both positive and negative aspects.

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Approach - avoidance conflict

Question 7

The three stages of the body’s physiological reaction to stress, including alarm, resistance and exhaustion.

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general adaptation syndrome(GAS

Question 8

The system of cells, organs, and chemicals of the body that responds to attacks from diseases, infections & injuries.

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Immune system

Question 9

Disease involving failure of the pancreas to secrete enough insulin, necessitating medication usually diagnosed before the age 40 & can be associated with obesity

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Type 2 diabetes

Question 10

Person who is ambitious, time conscious extremely hard working and tends to have high levels of hostility & anger as well as being easily annoyed.

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Type a personality

Question 11

Person who is relaxed and laid back , less driven & less competitive than type A & slow to anger

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Type B personality

Question 12

Pleasant but repressed, person who tends to internalize his or her anger and anxiety and who finds expressing emotions difficult

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Type C personality

Question 13

Hormone that is secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats proteins & carbohydrates in the body by increasing the level of glucose in the bloodstream

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Glucagon

Question 14

A hormone secreted by the pancreas to control the levels of fats proteins

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Insulin

Question 15

Actions that people can take to master, to tolerate, reduce or minimize the effects of stressors

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Coping strategies

Question 16

Changing ones behavior to match that of other people

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Conformity

Question 17

Changing ones behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change

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Compliance

Question 18

That person should do something for the other in return

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Norm of reciprocity

Question 19

A process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action in order to justify their investment in it

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Entrapment

Question 20

Sense of discomfort or distress that occurs when a persons behavior does not correspond to that persons attitudes

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Cognitive dissonance

Question 21

The forming of the first knowledge that a person has concerning another person

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Impression formation

Question 22

The process of explaining ones own behavior and the behavior of others.

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Attribution

Question 23

Cause of behavior attributed to internal factors such as personality or character.

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Dispositional cause

Question 24

The part of the self concept including ones view of self as a member of a particular social category

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Social identity

Question 25

The tendency of one's expectations to affect one's behavior in such a way as to make the expectations more likely to occur

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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Question 26

Intimacy passion commitment

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Sternbergs 3 components of love

Question 27

Lose awareness of their individuality and seem to hand themselves over to the mood and actions of the crowd

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Deindividuation

Question 28

Prosocial behavior that is done with no expectation of reward and may involve the risk of harm to oneself

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Altruism

Question 29

Referring to the effect hat the presence of other people has on the decision to help or not help, with help becoming less likely as the number of bystanders increases.

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Bystander effect

Question 30

The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think feel and behave

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Personality

Question 31

The enduring characteristics in which a person is born

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Temperament

Question 32

Level of the mind in which thoughts, feelings, memories and other information are kept that are not easily or voluntarily brought into consciousness.

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Unconscious mind

Question 33

Part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious

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ID

Question 34

Part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious rational and logical

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Ego

Question 35

Part of the personality that acts as a moral center

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Superego

Question 36

Part of the superego that produces guilt, depending on how acceptable behavior is

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Conscience

Question 37

Five stages of personality development proposed by Freud and tied to the sexual development of the child.

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Psychosexual stages

Question 38

Five stage occurring in the first year of life on which the mouth is the erogenous zone and weaning is the primary conflict

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Oral stage

Question 39

Second stage occurring from about 1 to 3 years of age, in which the anus is the erogenous zone and the toilet training is the source of conflict

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Anal stage

Question 40

Third stage occurring from about 3 to 6 years of age, in which the child discovers sexual feelings.

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Phallic stage

Question 41

Fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways

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Latency

Question 42

When puberty does begin, the sexual feelings that were once repressed can no longer be ignored.

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Genital stage

Question 43

Freud's term for both the theory of personality and therapy based on it

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Psychoanalisys

Question 44

Individuals expectancy of how effective his or her efforts to accomplish a goal will be in any particular circumstance.

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Self - efficacy

Question 45

People who assume that their own actions and decisions directly affect the consequences they experience

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Internal locust of control

Question 46

People who assume that their lives are more controlled by powerful others, luck, or fate.

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External locust of control

Question 47

People who are outgoing and sociable

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Extravert

Question 48

People who prefer solitude and dislike being the center of attention.

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Introvert

Question 49

The tendency of a test to produce the same scores again and again. Each time given to the same people.

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Reliability

Question 50

The degree to which a test actually measured what it's supposed to measure.

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Validity