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; optimism to stress: optimism low stress
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*Does aggressive action or fantasy reduce anger?: No, it intensifies anger
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*Explain "facial feedback".: The face ou put on influences you towards those emotions
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*What is catharsis?: Emotional release, proved untrue, if you want to get bad emotions out be violent
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*What is the feel-good, do-good phenomenon?: If you feel good you'll do good things tries to trick on test by switching it up
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*Who is Maslow? Who and what did he study?: He studied healthy people, self actualiztion, your born to grow
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Are facial expressions the same across cultures?: yes
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Are Gestures the same across cultures?: no
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collectivist cultures differ in emotional display?: Not supposed to do that
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Compare men and women's immune systems.: Womens are slower, during extreme times womens immune system tends to attack the body
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Define psychophysiological illness: Literally mind body illness; stress related
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Define type A: ambition
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Describe self-actualization and the characteristics accompanying it.: According to maslow the ultimate psychological need that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill ones potential
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Describe the flight or fight response: Higher heart rate, higher O2 in blood
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effect of emotions: . the response of the whole organism
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effect of physical arousal: your general alertness
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ego: moderates between the others
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emotion-focused coping: when you get used to a problem
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Explain and list the Big 5.: The five most important parts of your personality; C.A.N.O.E conscientious/ lazy agreeable/ disagreeable, neurotic/ non neurotic, openness/closeness, extraversion/ intraversion
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Explain attributional style and what it leads to.: How you explain things you see the world as you are instead of how it is
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Explain each defense mechanism, and definitions listed on pages: repression, regression, reaction formation, projection, rationalization, displacement
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Explain internal locus of control: you believe you can meet your needs
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Explain the adaptation-level phenomenon: Whatever you have over a short period of time won't make you happy any more because you adapt to having it
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Explain the concept of relative deprivation.: The perception that one is worse off relative to those whom one compares oneself
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Explain the Schachter-Singer experiment and findings: Two groups of college kids given epinephrine one group was told what would happen the other group was told it was something like allergy medicine the group that new was fine the group that didn't know freaked out, we like to know our emotions
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Explain type A behavior.: Motivated, over achieving
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external locus of control: you need to have your needs met for you
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general adaptation syndrome: Alarm resistance exhaustion
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How does our level of self-esteem affect our behavior?: It increases the likelihood that you will be happy
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How does overconfidence differ from confidence?: Some one who doesn't know grammar could feel good about a test coming out of it when they have actually failed not knowing is the source of their confidence
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How does positive psychology go beyond humanism?: Uses research and scientific metho
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How many emotions are there?: 8 to 10
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id: energy or drive for things
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individualism: More freedom, dog eat dog
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Name the 2 basic components of emotions in the two-factor theory: Schacter- Singer pyscioliogical arousal and conative arousal
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personal control: Out sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
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personality: Characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and acting
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problem-focused coping: what you do when you try to solve a problem
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Relate control to stress: low control more stress
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Relate religious involvement to healthiness: There is a strong relationship
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Relate stress levels and susceptibility to illness: Prolonged high stress levels make us more susceptible to illness
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Relate stress to poverty and economic inequality.: The less money you have the more bills the more stress
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stress: what you feel
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stressors: challenge
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superego: internalized ideals, product of punishments or corrections
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type A with anger: ambition with anger
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type B: relaxed
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Unconscious processes?: According to freud a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories.
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What are beliefs of humanistic psychology?: That healthy people strive for self-determination and self-relization
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What are benefits of self-esteem?: Anything positive
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What are common criticisms of humanistic perspective?: That it fails to appreciate the reality of our human capacity for evil
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What are Freud's psychosexual stages?: Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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What are some effects of optimism?: Anything good
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What are the 3 pillars of positive psychology?: Positive feelings, virtues, relationships
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What are the basic components of emotion?: Pyscological arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience
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What are the results of it?: positive
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What are the stages of the general adaptation syndrome?: Alarm- arousal to the stressor, resistance- resistance to the alarm, exhaustion
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What are traits?: Characteristic patterns of behavior and motivation
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What arousal is best with difficult tasks?: ? Lower arousal
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What arousal is best with well-learned tasks?: High arousal
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What association has been found with daily hassles?: They add up
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What correlates with cancer?: Stress and the speed of growth
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What did Adler and Horney believe?: That child hood social tensions are crucial for personality formation
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What did Cohen find?: Those with more stress are more susceptible to sickness
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What did Jung believe?: That the unconscious exerts a powerful influence
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What did Schwartz find about information overload?: We don't like to many choices
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What dimensions of personality have the Eysencks emphasized?: That we can reduce our normal individual variations to two or three dimensions
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What does lead to happiness?: Good relationships, faith, calling
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What does over activity do?: Weakens us, immunesystem
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What does research on cancer patients reveal?: The more stress the faster cancer grows
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What does social cognitive psychology emphasize?: Reinforcement, modeling, cognitive
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What does the immune system do?: Fights disease
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What does trait theory attempt to do?: Attempts to describe you
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What doesn't lead to happiness?: Amount of money physical apperance
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What emotional disabled-expression(s) do we understand best?: Happiness and anger
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What increases chances of heart disease?: Depression and anger
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What is a personality inventory?: A questionnaire on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits
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What is aerobic exercise linked to?: Almost everything good, lower depression rates
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What is collectivism?: More security less freedom
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What is fixation?: According to freud a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresoved
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What is free association?: In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind
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What is heart disease linked to?: High blood pressure
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What is learned helplessness?: Seligmen and dogs; the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
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What is meant by daily hassles?: Every day annoyances
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What is psychoanalysis?: Freuds theory of personality that attributes toughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
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What is reciprocal determinism?: The interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
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What is social support?: People to listen
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What is subjective well-being?: That you decide how well your doing, your happiness
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What is the Barnum effect?: The acceptance of stock positive descriptions
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What is the relationship of stress and the immune system?: Prolonged stress depresses the immune system
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What is the relationship of wealth to health?: A slight positive relationship
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What is the role of self-concept to Rogers?: All our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question who am i?
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What is the self-serving bias?: Readiness to perceive our self favorably
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What is the spotlight effect?: Overestimating how much other people are thinking about you
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What is the toxic element attached to it?: anger
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What is, and what are elements of, social support?: Being liked and admired
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What leads to dissatisfaction and unhappiness?: The difference of your self ideal to your self concept is large
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What psychological perspective does Bandura represent?: Social cognitive or reciprocal determination
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What were Rogers 3 conditions for growth: A.g.e.- acceptance, genuiness, empathy
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What, on the job, is more likely to lead to stress-induced illness?: Low control
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When did/didn't rats develop ulcers?: When they had control no ulcers, when they didn't they developed ulcers
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When do we usually perform best?: During moderate arousal
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Where do we see the most emotions?: In the face
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Who proposed the two-factor theory?: Schacter and singer
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Who recognizes facial expressions of emotion best?: Introverts and women
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Why do executives live longer than clerics/laborers?: They have more control
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Why do Lykken and Saxe oppose lie detector tests?: Because it does not measure a lie
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Why do we employ defense mechanisms?: Freud said that the ego protects it's self with them
