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ap psyc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a behavior pattern marked by relaxed, pacient easygoing behavior | type b personality |
| a behavior pattern marked by competitive,aggressive,hostile behavior. | type a personality |
| any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten our well being and therby tax our coping abilities. | stress |
| various types of aid and succor provided by members of ones social network | social support |
| expectations or demands that one behave in a certain way. | pressure |
| a general tendency to expect good outcomes. | optimism |
| any noticeable alterations in ones living circumstances that require readjustment. | life changes |
| a passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events. | learned helplessness |
| spending an inordinate amount of time on the internet and being unable to control online use. | internet addiction |
| the body's defensive reaction to invasion by bacteria, viral agents or other foreign substances. | immune response |
| the sub field of psychology concerned with how psychosocial forces relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and the causation prevention and treatment of illnesses. | health psychology |
| selye's model of the body's stress response consisting of three stages alarm resistance and exhaustion. | general adaption syndrome |
| the feeling that people experience in any situation in which their pursuit of some goal is thwarted | frustration |
| largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from unpleasant emotions such as anxiety and guilt | defense mechanisms |
| an active effort to master reduce or tolerate the demands created by stress. | coping |
| unrealistic and pessimistic appraisal of stress that exaggerates the magnitude of a problem | catastrophic thinking |
| a model of illness that holds that physical illness that holds that physical illness is caused by a complex interaction of biological psychological and sociocultural factors | Biopsychosocial model |
| a conflict situation in which a choice must be made between two unattractive goals. | avoidance avoidance conflict |
| a conflict situation in which a choice must be made between two attractive goals. | approach approach conflict |
| any behavior that is intended to hurt someone either physically or verbally. | aggression |
| goal directed behavior that may be affected by needs wants and incentives | motivation |
| an external goal that motivates behavior | incentive |
| a state of physiological equilibrium or stability | homeostasis |
| an increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity | galvanic skin response gsr |
| a subjective conscious experience accompanied by bodily arousal | emotion |
| an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities designed to reduce the tension | drive |
| cultural norms that regulate the expression of emotions. | display rules |
| the need to master difficult challanges to outperform others and to meet high standards of excellence | achievement motive |
| the ability of a test to measure what it was designed to measure | validity |
| trying various random solutions until one is found that works | trial and error |
| the measurement consistency of a test | reliability |
| genetically determined limits on intelligence. | reaction range |
| active efforts to discover how to solve a problem | problem solving |
| a symmetric bell shaped curve that represents the pattern of many population characteristics | normal distribution |
| persisting in using problem solving strategies that have worked in the past. | mental set |
| the mental ability typical of a chronological age group. | mental age |
| mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100 | intelligence quotient |
| a strategey guiding principle or rule of thumb used in solving problems or making decisions | heuristic |
| in problem solving the sudden disvcovery of a solution following multiple failed attempts | insight |
| the proprotion of trait variability in a population attributable to genetic inheritance | heritability ratio |
| the erroneous belief that the odds of a chance event increase if the event hasn't occurred recently | gambler's fallacy |
| the tendency to perceive an item only in terms of its most common use | functional fixedness |
| expanding alternatives by generating many possible solutions | divergent thinking |
| making choices by evaluating alternatives | decision making |
| generating ideas that are original novel and useful | creativity |
| thinking that narrows multiple alternative to a single best solution | convergent thinking |
| an error in thinking that involves estimating that the odds of two uncertain events happening alone | conjunction fallacy |
| estimating the probably of an event based on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind. | availability heuristic |
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