Chapter 15 Second Half

Question 0

According to Maslow, ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self esteem is achieved.

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Self-actualization

Question 1

Proposes that faith in one’s worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death

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Terror-management Theory

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According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question “who am I?”

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Self-Concept

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Characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports

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Traits

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Questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors

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Personality Inventories

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Most widely research and clinically used of all personality test. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders.

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MMPI

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Test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting this that discriminate between groups.

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Empirically Derived

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Views behavior as influence by the interaction between persons and their social context

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Social-Cognitive Perspective

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Interacting influences between personality and environmental factors

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless

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Personal Control

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Perception that chance our outside forces beyond one’s personal control determine one’s fate

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External Locus of Control

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Perception that one’s controls one’s own fate

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Internal Locus of Control

Question 13

Scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individual and communities to thrive

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Positive Psychology

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Overestimating others’ noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders.

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Spotlight Effect

Question 15

One’s feelings of his or low self worth

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Self-Esteem

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Self actualization, self aware, self accepting, open, spontaneous, caring, secure in themselves, unselfish

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Abraham Maslow

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Believed that in order for self actualization to occur, three conditions are required: genuineness, acceptance, empathy

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Carl Rogers

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Defined personality in terms of identifiable behavior patterns, less concerned explaining traits than with describing them

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Gordon Allport

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Statistical procedure used to identify clusters of traits that go together

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Factor Analysis

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Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion

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The Big Five

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Positive psychology

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Martin Seligman

Question 22

Hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events

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Learned Helplessness

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Scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individual and communities to thrive

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Positive Psychology

Question 24

Readiness to perceive oneself favorably

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Self-serving Bias