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What does avoiding a social situation do for a shy person?

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Reduces anxiety and reinforces their avoidance of social situations behaviour

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What is the best way to distinguish a phobia?

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To expose yourself to the situation in a gradual way.

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What are the three groups of shyness?

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  1. Avoidance
  2. Safety
  3. Coping
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From the scene where Raj and Lucy have a date in the library what shyness group are they both in?

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Coping. They are trying to go out of their comfort zone to try new things.

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What is a fixed belief?

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The belief that traits are fixed and cannot change.

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What is a malleable belief?

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That traits can change.

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Will a fixed belief toward math child chooses easy problems or tips on harder problems?

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The easier problems so that they can show that they are good at it.

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Will a malleable belief toward math choose easy problems or tips on harder problems?

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Tips on harder problems so that they can learn more from it.

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Who is more likely to take advantage of tutoring? Fixed or malleable thinkers?

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Malleable.

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Which group of struggling math students did better? The ones with traditional study skills training or the growth mindset intervention?

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the growth mindset did better as they were able to change their views toward malleable beliefs

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How do entity shy people react towards strangers.

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They display more shy behavior than someone who is an incremental theorist.

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Incremental is to _________ as entity is ______?

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Incremental is to malleable as entity is to fixed.

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What should shy people due to help with social anxiety?

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Try to be friendly

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What are the two critical identifiers of narcissism

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Inflated self esteem, and lack of deep meaningful connections

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What Fraction of Americans have experience narcissistic personality disorder?

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1/16

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Reality tv stars usually high in what?

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Narcissism

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Parents telling their kids that they are the greatest results in what?

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Inflated self esteem.

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How many personality disorders are there?

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10

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Narcissism is positively associated with which of the Big 5 personality traits? Which traits are they low on?

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Extroversion and openness.

Low on agreeableness.

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Which motives are narcissists high and low on?

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High on power. Low on affliation.

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What are Roger’s conditions for therapeutic movement in clients?

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A genuine relationship, in which he cares for the individual.

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What will happen in the client if Roger’s conditions are met?

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The patient will explore himself more deeply, and find something that wasnt there before.

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What is the self-actualization idea?

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That we are naturally prepared to develop our interests and we will move in that direction.

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What are two things that interfere with self-actualization?

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Parents or teachers do not value or approve parts of you.

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What time frame does humanistic theory focus on?
The present
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When does self congruence occur?
When we experience unconditional positive regard and empathy. Then the self has access to all experiences because we know that no matter what we think and feel, we are valued and understood.
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What is Rogers empathetic stance?
He will put away in his own beliefs and enter into the patient's world of perception.
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What is Rogers uncoditional positive regard?
They feel acceptance towards different parts of themselves that they have been shutting out of awareness.
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Rogers looked at his student's with clients. What was the most predictive factor towards their success?
The quality of the relationship they had.
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In the Hans Strupp task, what was the best intervention group?
All the students who met with someone to talk with whether it was a psychoanalyst, a humanistic psychologist, or a history professor, they all benefited from it.
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What was the reason for the success of students in the Hans Strupp task?
The positive changes experienced were attributed to the healing effects of a benign human relationship.
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What is the difference between self-concordant reasons and controlled reasons.
Self-concordant reasons you do for yourself. Controlled reasons are doing it for someone else.
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What is the difference between self-actualization and narcissism>
Self-actualization know more about themselves. Narcissists just want to show themselves off.
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What are the 3 mistakes people make?
Memory lapses, slips of the tongue, and mistaken actions.
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Which type of mistakes happen 3 times a week?
Memory lapses, and slips of the tongue.
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What is the cause of memory lapses?
Direct result of repression. Something that arouses anxiety is forced out of awareness.
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What is free association?
Free association is saying whatever comes to mind.
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What causes slips of the tongues?
Is the consequence of a failure to repress completely some unconscious thought or wish.
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Why do women who are doing well in therapy suddenly start failing?
There is transference from growing up when they are most cared by their parents when they are unhappy and miserable.
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What is the pursuit of failure?
Mainly happens to men such that they sabotage their relationships and jobs.
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Why do mistaken actions occur?
Something you tried to repress comes out.
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What happens in a fill in the blank task with racial material and patients under a cognitive load?
Under a cognitive load, they are more likely to fill in with more racist remarks than someone not under a cognitive load.
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What did JAMA conclude relative to psychoanalytical theory?
That it is still valid in diagnosing disorders.
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When does our narrative identity start to form?
Starts in adolescence and develops through adulthood.
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How do stories change from childhood to adult hood?
Child stories all seem seperate, but as we get older the stories start to come together.
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What are the two components of a story?
That they have a factual basis but there is a personal shading on the story.
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How does your parent's ability to tell stories affect your ability?
The better your parent's stories the better you will be able to.
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What is the most stable part of stories?
The narrative tone.
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How does your attachment style relate to the types of stories that you will tell?
The more stable your stories, the more optimistic your stories will be.
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When you are 12-14 it is really important to have what?
A same sex best friend.
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What is the difference between American stories and East Asian stories.
Americans have earlier childhood memories, that are more detailed, more self- focused, and more on ourselves, and show uniqueness. There is more focus on the self rather than the group.
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What would McAdams look for in the best stories?
Signs of both agency behavior and communion behavior.
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What are the two types of well-being?
Hedonic and Eudaimonic.
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A Hedonic measure of well-being looks at what three areas?
Life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect.
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Negative affect is related to what Big 5 personality trait?
Neuroticism
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What relation do positive and negative affect have?
They are independent of each other
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What is a set point?
A level of satisfaction that is usually returned to after posiitve or negative events that is relatively stable.
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What is the difference between good perfectionism and bad perfectionism?
Bad perfectionism has effects on your self esteem.
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In the loss of possible selves study, what were the difference in hedonic or eudaimonic happiness if they dealt with it or avoided it.
Those who avoided it had higher hedonic levels at first. Those who dealt with it returned to their hedonic level and had higher eudiamonic levels.
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What is the shape of a happiness curve over the lifetime?
It is an upward U shape that bottoms at 46 and starts to rise.
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What emotion decreases as we age?
Anger
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Who is happier? A 20 year old or a 80 year old?
The 80 year old.
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Power motivation is associated with what in regards to happiness?
Having more negative affect.
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What is the only Big 5 personality related to IQ.
Openness. The greater your IQ, the more you will explore.
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Self-control is at the heart of what Big 5 trait?
Conscientiousness.
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What is the number one quality of managers?
Agreeableness. Being able to relate to others.
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What is the attributional bias?
We focus on people's traits and not the situation.
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Who are the people that behave the most consistenly across situations?
People who are high in morally relevant traits.
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Who behaves more consistently?
The low self monitors or the high self monitors?
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Which Big 5 is most correlated with psychiatric disorders?
Neuroticism
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Depression is transitory. How many people get through depression?
90%
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What is anhedonia?
No interests in what you are normally doing.
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What is the relation between conscientiousness and mental disorders?
The lower you are in conscientiousness the more at risk you are.
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People that are low in extraversion are at higher rates of which two disorders?
Anxiety and depressive disorders.
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What is the the scar hypothesis?
That having a mental disorder may change how you normally behave.
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Who is more likely to seek help for a mental illness? Someone young or someone old.
Old.
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Which personality trait has the highest correlate to success in therapy?
Conscientiousnessq
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What is the main problem with punishment?
They don't understand what is wrong, they only learn to change their behavior so that they do not get caught.
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Being higher in which trait was related to lower marriage satisfaction?
Neurotocism.
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What is the Michael Angelo effect? How is it related to marriage satisfaction?
Believing your partner has special, ideal qualities, and over time they will likely increase in these qualities. Related to marriage satisfaction such that the more positive illusions the happier the marriage.
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What are the Big three motives?
Power, achievement, affliation
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What is a thematic apperception test?
You write a story based on a picture, and this gives insight into your type of motivation.
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What is the danger associated with the achievement motive?
Danger that you might cheat.
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Which is more stable: traits or motives?
Traits

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