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Human Relations Terms
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Psychology
10th Grade
04/18/2012

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"Good life"
Definition
family, house, friends, richness, luck, fame, honor, good health, practice of virtue.
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Nihilism "the nothing"
Definition
"the nothing" Life lacks meaning, happiness doesn't exist, impossible to achieve and pointless to look for.
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Hoplessness 
Definition
extreme grades of Nihilism, people lose hope, pain, depression, suicidal thoughts, need medical help.
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Absurd
Definition
life becomes absurd because society, norms etc.. force us to do things we don't want to. "man is puppet"
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Fatalism
Definition
Man not owner of his own destiny, avoids pain, thinks it's useless to wish for something that isn't destined for us.
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Pessimism
Definition
effort is not worth it, better to quit.
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Disillusion
Definition
doesn't believe in anything, thinks that truth mostly comes from bad experiences.
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Bitterness
Definition
disillusion with resentment
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Carpe Diem
Definition
enjoy life and moments before it's too late.
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Pragmatism
Definition
you can be happy if you are well. no idealism nor personal intrests.
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common good
Definition

Contemporary Posture: -happiness must be persued -adquisition of goods

-well being as a purpose -more pleasure less pain

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Power of money
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Contemporary posture: -money brings happiness and power -if I give, I lose and its unhappy
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Law of the strongest
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Contemporary Posture: -everything needs to be conquered and achieved -you must be a winner and strong to be happy

-leads to anger, tyranny and war

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Logotherapy
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Contemporary Posture: -happiness is product of concious work

-seeks wellbeing of others and oneself

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Fundamental Freedom
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Freedom: -specific feature of a human person

-interior freedom

-infinite openness, ability to reason, love and will.

-openness to reality

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Psychological Freedom
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Freedom: -free will

-capacity to go after what's good.

-CHOICE: ability to choose between diff. options

-self determination and inteligence

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Moral Freedom
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Freedom: -consequence of free will

-choice shapes moral characteristic of persons

-Realization of fundamental freedom throughout time according to a vital project.

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Social-Political Freedom
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Freedom: -carry out vital project within society

-create a just and human social order

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Limited Freedom
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Freedom: human person not an absolute being. There are needs:

-physical: food & air

-Psychological: not capable to know or want everything

-Moral: knowing there are things we want to do but shouldn't

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Responsible Freedom
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Freedom: -being free isn't equal as being independent.

-Freedom is the power to choose and Responsibility justifies that choice

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Responsibility
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Responding to something; actions have consequences. Onself- self possesion &self gov.

society- think how actions affect others

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Resilience
Definition

Ability to bounce back from a difficult experience like trauma, tragedy, stress, and adversity.

-Can be learned or developed. 

opposite of giving up

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Resilient people
Definition

Characteristic of ____________. -search for challenges

-failure is not an end point

-no shame when don't succeed

this people have: initiative, independence, vision, relations, morality and humor.

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ABC's
Definition

7 skills: Adversity, beliefs and consequences

Goal: have emotions and behaviors be productive to the situation.

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Thinking Traps
Definition
7 skills: AVOID_________ like tunnel vision, jumping to conclusions, magnifying/minimizing, mind reading, personalizing.
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Detect Icebergs
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7 skills: Detect........... any harming belief that minimizes our effectiveness in responding to adversity.

3 categories:

Achievement (need to succeed), Acceptance(need to be liked & included), Control (need to be in charge)

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Challenging beliefs
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7 skills: clarify problems--> better and more permanent solutions
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Putting things in perspective
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7 skills: write down chain reaction, ask yourself (what would be the worst?), generate alternatives, see probable outcomes and state solutions
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Calming and focusing
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7 skills: ______ and _______ stress causes sickness, anxiety and fatigue. you can practice calming techniques like exercise or controlled breathing, get rid of intrusive thoughts (problems, waste time) use mental games.
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Mistakes
Definition
pollyanna optimism, sismiss grain of truth, blame game, minimizing are all ___________
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