Self

Question 1

What is Approach Motivation (+Needs)?

Answer 1

Motivation toward Goal

Question 2

What is Avoidance Motivation (-needs)?

Answer 2

Motivation away from goal.

Question 3

What does it mean to be Promotion focused?

Answer 3

Envision success more eager, reads extra material

Question 4

What does it mean to be Prevention Focused?

Answer 4

More vigilance, adheres to course requirements

Question 5

What is the solution to Approach Approach Conflict?

Answer 5

Solution: greatest Utility

Question 6

What is the solution to Approach-Avoidance Conflict?

Answer 6

Guilt of desire occurs

Solution: Justification?

Question 7

What is the solution to Avoidance-avoidance conflict?

Answer 7

Solution: remove/Downplay avoidant nature of one option

Question 8

What is a Virtue Product (Exercise or watching tv)?

Answer 8

Initial Cost, but has long term benefit

Question 9

What is a Vice Product (Exercise or watching tv)?

Answer 9

Initial benefit but long term cost

Question 10

Why does failure occur in self control

Answer 10

Due to two conflicting standards
Lack of monitoring
Reduced belief in capacity to alter behavior

Question 11

What is Self Control?

Answer 11

When a person overrides one potential pattern of response with another

Question 12

When do people eat more?

Answer 12

When they are given a bigger container.

Question 13

Why did they eat more?

Answer 13

Because of the cues around them, size, sound people eating around them.

Question 14

Why don’t diets work? (3 reasons)

Answer 14

Our body fights against them,
brain fights against them
our day to environment fights against them

Question 15

Mindless Margin

Answer 15

Its the point where our body doesn’t recognize we are eating less (100 less calories a day)

Question 16

20 percent more or less

Answer 16

Eat 20% less but 20% more fruits and veggies.```

Question 17

Who is william James

Answer 17

The Father of American Psychology, More popular than Fruied

Question 18

How do you define “self”?

Answer 18

(The entire set of beliefs) evaluations, perceptions, and thoughts that people have about themselves.

Question 19

What is the Freudian View of self?

Answer 19

Minimize Pain and maximize pleasure, we come to discover who we are and what our preferences are

Question 20

What is the goal theory of self?

Answer 20

Goals shape our personality and perception of self

Question 21

What is the social Cognitive system

Answer 21

It is a meaning approach to the self concept , people feel positive and negative emotions and are motivated by goals according to the meaning they subscribe to experience.

Question 22

What is the looking glass self?

Answer 22

its how we Imagine how appear to others. how do we present ourselves to others. “taking the role of the other”

Question 23

Fun fact about william james

Answer 23

“I am mortified if others know more about psychology than I.” He wanted to be the best.

Question 24

there are three things that make up the Self Concept, what are they?

Answer 24

1. Attributes of self
2. An evaluation of each attribute
3. Self esteem

Question 25

What encourages consumers to incorporate an object into Self 5 things
(FPI-OI-CI-Kno-Gi)

Answer 25

1. frequently perceiving it
2. Owning it
3. Creating it
4. Knowledge (thoroughly understanding it
5. Giving(receiving) as a gift

Question 26

What is the Ideal Self?

Answer 26

A personsons conception of how he or she would like to be

Question 27

What is the actual Self?

Answer 27

A more realistic appraisal of the qualities we have and don’t have.