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Theory of Reciprocal Determinism
Bandura’s theory that behavior, personal factors, and environmental influences all interact and affect each other.
Self-Efficacy
The belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task.
Self-Esteem
An individual’s overall sense of self-worth or how they evaluate their own value.
Self-Concept
The understanding or image a person has of themselves, including their beliefs and roles.
Operant Conditioning
A learning process where behavior is shaped by reinforcement or punishment.
Self-Actualization
The realization of one’s full potential and the pursuit of personal growth and fulfillment.
Unconditional Regard
Accepting and supporting a person regardless of their actions or behaviors, often emphasized in therapy.
Congruent Self-Concept
A self-concept that is aligned with one’s actual experiences and true self
Conditional Regard
Providing love or acceptance only when certain conditions or behaviors are met.
Incongruent Self-Concept
A self-concept that does not align with a person’s actual experiences, leading to internal conflict.
Projective Test
A psychological test where ambiguous stimuli are used to reveal hidden thoughts and feelings.
Open-mindedness
The willingness to consider new ideas and perspectives without prejudice or bias.
Conscientiousness
A personality trait characterized by being organized, responsible, and diligent in goal-oriented behavior.
Agreeableness
A personality trait involving being compassionate, cooperative, and sensitive to others' needs and feelings.
Extroversion
A personality trait that involves being outgoing, energetic, and focused on external stimuli and social interactions.
Neuroticism
A personality trait associated with emotional instability, anxiety, and a tendency to experience negative emotions
Personality/“Big 5” Inventory
A model of personality that includes five broad traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (OCEAN).
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.
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.
Id
The unconscious part of the personality, according to Freud, that operates on the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification of basic drives.
Defense Mechanisms
Unconscious psychological strategies used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety or conflict, such as repression, denial, and projection.
Personality tests
self report and protective
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
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
National character
Idea that various cultures have widely recognized prototype personalities
Emotion
Involves one subjective, conscious experience, ( cognitive component ), accompanied by two bodily arousal, ( the physiological component ) and three characteristic overt expression ( the behavioral component)
Affective forecasting
Efforts to predict one’s emotional reactions to future events
Polygraph/lie detection
Device that records automatic fluctuations while a subject is being questioned
Galvanic skin response(GSR)
Increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity
Limbic system
Hypothalamus, amygdala and adjacent structures are associated with fear and emotions
Display rules
Norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions
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
Cannon- Barf Theory
Physiological arousal can happen without the experience of emotion. They happen independently and simultaneously.
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
Evolutionary aspect of emotions
Emotions are innate response to certain stimuli some believe emotions developed before thoughts
Stimulus
The thing causing you to react
Physiological arousal
Autonomic nervous system
Cognitive appraisal
Why am I feeling this way?
Barbra Fredricksen
Positive psychological influence on understanding
Positive emotions
Set up for success and open up awareness, thinking, and actions
Resources
We gain through positive emotions and increase overall well-being
Negative emotions
Reduce our awareness and narrow overall mindset