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Psych 101 chapter 10,11,13
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Physiology
Undergraduate 1
11/15/2009

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social learning theory (gender roles)
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learning gender through observation, imitation and reinforcemnet
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intersexed
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person possessing ambiguous sexual organs making it difficult to determine sex from visual inspection at birth
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androgyny
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having personality characteristics of males and females
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catastrophic events
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your life has been endangered in some way
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hans seyle (general adaptation syndrome)
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alarm: body prepares us of action
resistance: prep for long duration
exhaustion: body is worn out
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pressure
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psychological experience produced by urgent demands or expectations for persons behavior coming from an outside source
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frustration
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psychological experience poduced by the blocking of a desired goal or fulfillment of percieved need
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ruminitive thinking
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continually thinking about the bad aspects
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behaviorial responses
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changes in how we look, act, talk
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coping skills
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ways to deal with stress
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interpetation
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what we find stressful is important
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problem focused coping
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altering or eliminating stressor
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emotion focused coping
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decreasing stress by changing how you feel
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biofeedback
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calming the body
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type a personality
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competitiveness, impatience, hositilty
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type b personality
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easy going, accepting, believing things will turn out ok
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type c personality
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appearing to be type b but cant let things go
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hardiness
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how committed you are to accomplishing what you want to out of life. seeing problems as challenges not obstacles
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denial
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problem doesnt exsist
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displacment
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taking out frustrations on less threating target
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repression
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pushing memory out
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regression
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reverting to time when you didnt have to deal with stress
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rationalization
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trying to explain something away
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identification
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'being' someone else
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projection
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attributing your feelings to someone else
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compensation
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being better in one area to make up for being defective in another
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personality
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unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and act
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character
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value judgements of person's moral and ethical behavior
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temperament
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enduring characteristics with which each person is born
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freuds theory of personality- psychodynamic
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comes from libido or death instincts
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3 componets to personality-psychodyamic
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id:base impulses, born with
superego: conscience, morality-taught
ego: mediator btwn id and superego-you
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psychosexual development
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libido is focused on particular area of body or erogenous zone
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oral stage
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birth to 1 1/2 years-pleasure based on oral sensations
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anal stage
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1 1/2 to 3 years- pleasure is based on defection
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phallic stage
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3 to 6 years- child discovers sexual feelings
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latentcy stage
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6 to adolensence- nothing happens physically
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genital stage
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from adolesence to death-attention is focused on genitals and how to get sex
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the big five theory
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openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.
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trait situation
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people may behave differently than expected depending on situation
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