Personal Development

Vocabulary flashcards generated from lecture notes on personal development, family structures, theories, key individuals, and psychological concepts.

Values

Describes positive and desirable qualities which usually mirror the value it represents.

Behavior

The manifestation or acting out of the attitudes of an individual.

Self

The cognitive and effective representation of one's identity.

Shalom H. Schwartz

Conducted research which covered many different peoples and cultures to identify ten common values.

Jan C Smuts

Wrote the book of Holism.

Brain Dominance Theory

A theory derived from observation and test that the human body although symmetrical and paired in almost all aspects.

Gestalt

Something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts.

Emotion

The reaction by any non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

Mind Mapping

A diagram used to represent ideas or information branching from a central key word or idea.

Dr. Roger Sperry

Stated that the brain has two hemispheres that perform tasks differently from each other.

Stress

A reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus.

Personality

Referred to as the set of behaviour, feelings, thoughts and motives that identify an individual.

Hermanns theory

The theory of four brain quadrants which represent the dominant characteristics of a person's thinking.

Holism

About seeing a thing as a whole and as something that is bigger than the sum of its parts.

Erik Ericson

Identified the role confusion.

Attitudes

A result of a person's evaluation of an experience with another experience of the person.

Dr. Paul Mac Lean

A neuroscientist and neurologist who came up with the Triune Brain Theory and stated that feelings arise from the brain as it interprets an emotion.

Adolescence

The transition period between childhood and early adulthood.

Paul Ekman

Identified six emotions.

Personal Development

The process in which persons reflect upon themselves and understand who they are.

Virtues

Descriptions or adjectives that reflect a value.

Zorka Hereford

Author of a guide for personal development.

Martin Seligma

Psychologist and president of the American psychology association.

Feeling

Results from the emotions that were experienced.

Movare

A Latin verb which means to move or upset or agitate.

Socrates

Studied the positive human qualities and the lives of exemplary people.

Abraham Maslow

Formulated the five stages of human development.

Physical Development

Covers the growth of the body and the brain, motor and sensory skills.

Rene Descarte

One of the modern philosophers of our time who influenced much of mankind's thinking with the theory of duality.

Puberty

The physical change that happens during adolescence stage.

Millennials

Generation born in the midst of a great technology, also referred to as digital natives.

Lo Waist Gang

The hippie movement and flower power that became the trademark of this generation.

Discrimination

The abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger or more powerful.

Amygdala

The region of the brain located in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in emotions.

Development

Referred to as the set of behaviours, feelings, thoughts and motives that identify an individual.

Heredity

Composed of the inborn traits passed on by the generations of offspring from both sides of the biological parents.

Inrospection

Paying attention to your own experiences, actions, reactions, feelings inside while you participate in an activity; derived from social interactions that provide insight into how others react to you.

Determination

Allows you to focus only on achieving a specific goal without being distracted by less important things.

Coping

The way for a person to deal with stress in a healthy and acceptable manner.

Infancy

The foundation age when basic behaviour are organized and many ontogenetic maturation skills are developed.

Self Actualization

Achieving one's full potential.

Love

A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person as that arising from kinship or a close friendship.

Conflict

A dynamic in which two or more people, organizations, or nations perceive one another as a threat to their needs or interests.

Occupation

A similar work for which people have responsibilities and which they develop a common set of skills and knowledge.

Attachment

When the couple in love decides to continue with the relationship, they enter this stage where long lasting commitments are exchanged.

Career

A profession that a person may get into based on a good match between life goals, skills, personality, and interest; also defined as the combination and sequence of roles played by a person during the course of a lifetime.

Partnership

The close relationship formed between two people that is built upon affection, trust, intimacy and romantic love.

Attraction

Described as the lovestruck phase, which involves neurotransmitters in the brain such as dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin.

Healthy Relationship

A vital component of health and well-being.

Criticism

Results when there is the absence of unconditional positive regard for each other in a relationship.

Nuclear Family

The family unit consisting of at most a father, mother and dependent children.

Family

Two or more persons who are related by birth, marriage or adoption.

Extended Family

A family consisting of parents, and children, along with either grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles.

Foster Family

A family where one or more of the children is legally a temporary member of the household.

Social Relationship

How we interact and behave with other people and how they interact and behave with us.

Intrapersonal

Refers to oneself, like when one is indecisive about things.

Personal Relationship

The close connection between people, formed by emotional bonds and interactions.

Step Families

The two people brought together due to divorce, separation and remarriage.

Adopted Family

A family where one or more of the children is adopted.

Emotional Intelligence

The ability to understand, use and manage our emotion.

Primary Emotion

Emotions that are experienced for a short period of time.

Interpersonal

The dynamic space between people; describes how you communicate, connect, and build relationships with others.

Family Structure

A family support system which involves two married individuals providing care and stability.

Daniel Goleman

Associated with the ability to motivate oneself and persist in the face of emotion.

August Turak

Proposed that personal development is not a tool for reaching a bigger goal, because becoming a complete human being is the biggest and most noble goal.

Dr. Robert Sternberg

Theorized about love.

Intimacy

Involves liking, feeling of closeness, connectedness and finding.

Empty Love

The absence of three components of love.

Companionate Love

Characterized by an intimate, non-passionate type of love with a long term commitment.

Friends

A close tie between two people that is often built upon mutual experiences.

Jealous

A feeling of being upset when someone has something that you would like to have or they get to do something you wanted.

Self Awareness

The ability to recognize and understand your moods and emotions.

Proud

A feeling of being pleased for doing well.

Secondary Emotion

Emotions that are processed by the different parts of the brain that require higher order thinking skills.

Charismatic Leadership Theory

Theory stating that leadership has empathy, envisioning and empowerment as core components.

Transactional Theory

Based on a system of rewards and punishments that are dependent upon the performance of the followers.

Migrant Family

A family that moves regularly to places where they have employment.