AP Psychology Unit 5

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Theory of Reciprocal Determinism

Bandura’s theory that behavior, personal factors, and environmental influences all interact and affect each other.

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Self-Efficacy

The belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task.

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Self-Esteem

An individual’s overall sense of self-worth or how they evaluate their own value.

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Self-Concept

The understanding or image a person has of themselves, including their beliefs and roles.

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Operant Conditioning

A learning process where behavior is shaped by reinforcement or punishment.

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Self-Actualization

The realization of one’s full potential and the pursuit of personal growth and fulfillment.

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Unconditional Regard

Accepting and supporting a person regardless of their actions or behaviors, often emphasized in therapy.

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Congruent Self-Concept

A self-concept that is aligned with one’s actual experiences and true self

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Conditional Regard

Providing love or acceptance only when certain conditions or behaviors are met.

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Incongruent Self-Concept

A self-concept that does not align with a person’s actual experiences, leading to internal conflict.

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Projective Test

A psychological test where ambiguous stimuli are used to reveal hidden thoughts and feelings.

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Open-mindedness

The willingness to consider new ideas and perspectives without prejudice or bias.

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Conscientiousness

A personality trait characterized by being organized, responsible, and diligent in goal-oriented behavior.

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Agreeableness

A personality trait involving being compassionate, cooperative, and sensitive to others' needs and feelings.

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Extroversion

A personality trait that involves being outgoing, energetic, and focused on external stimuli and social interactions.

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Neuroticism

A personality trait associated with emotional instability, anxiety, and a tendency to experience negative emotions

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Personality/“Big 5” Inventory

A model of personality that includes five broad traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (OCEAN).

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Ego

According to Freud, the part of the personality that mediates between the id, the superego, and reality, aiming to satisfy desires in a socially acceptable way.

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Superego

Freud’s concept of the part of the personality that represents moral standards and ideals, guiding the individual’s sense of right and wrong.

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Id

The unconscious part of the personality, according to Freud, that operates on the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification of basic drives.

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Defense Mechanisms

Unconscious psychological strategies used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety or conflict, such as repression, denial, and projection.

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Personality tests

self report and protective

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Self report inentories

personality tests that asks individuals to answer a series of questions about their characteristic behavior

  • MMPI- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

  • NEO- measures 5 big traits

    • Error Sources

      • deliberate deception

      • social desirability bias

      • response sets

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Projective tests

asks participants to respond to vague, ambiguous stimuli in ways that can reveal the subjects needs, feelings, and personality traits.

  • Error sources

    • inconstant scoring

    • low reliability

    • inadequate test norms

    • cultural bias

    • poor validity estimates

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National character

Idea that various cultures have widely recognized prototype personalities

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Emotion

Involves one subjective, conscious experience, ( cognitive component ), accompanied by two bodily arousal, ( the physiological component ) and three characteristic overt expression ( the behavioral component)

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Affective forecasting

Efforts to predict one’s emotional reactions to future events

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Polygraph/lie detection

Device that records automatic fluctuations while a subject is being questioned

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Galvanic skin response(GSR)

Increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity

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Limbic system

Hypothalamus, amygdala and adjacent structures are associated with fear and emotions

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Display rules

Norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions

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James- Lange Theory

Conscious experience of emotions results from once perception of autonomic arousal

Perception of autonomic arousal leads to the conscious experience of fear

Different patterns of autonomic activation lead to the experience of different emotions

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Cannon- Barf Theory

Physiological arousal can happen without the experience of emotion. They happen independently and simultaneously.

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Schachters two factor theory

People look at situational cues to differentiate between alternative emotions. The experience of emotion depends on two factors one autonomic arousal two cognitive interpretation of that arousal when you experience physiological arousal you search your environment for an explanation

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Evolutionary aspect of emotions

Emotions are innate response to certain stimuli some believe emotions developed before thoughts

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Stimulus

The thing causing you to react

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Physiological arousal

Autonomic nervous system

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Cognitive appraisal

Why am I feeling this way?

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Barbra Fredricksen

Positive psychological influence on understanding

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Positive emotions

Set up for success and open up awareness, thinking, and actions

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Resources

We gain through positive emotions and increase overall well-being

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Negative emotions

Reduce our awareness and narrow overall mindset