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Unit 10 Psych Vocab
Unit 10 Psych Vocab Part 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Self-Esteem | One's overall self-evaluation or sense of self-worth. |
| Self-Efficacy | The belief in one's ability to accomplish specific tasks. |
| Self-Serving Bias | The tendency to perceive oneself favorably, attributing positive events to internal causes and negative events to external causes. |
| Narcissism (repeated term) | Excessive self-love or self-centeredness, often accompanied by a lack of empathy for others. |
| Motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. |
| Instinct | A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species. |
| Psychological Need | A basic biological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism. |
| Drive-Reduction Theory | The idea that a physiological need creates a state of tension (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. |
| Homeostasis | The body's tendency to maintain a balanced, constant internal state. |
| Incentive | A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior. |
| Yerkes-Dodson Law | The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases. |
| Hierarchy of Needs (repeated term) | Maslow's pyramid of human needs, starting with basic physiological needs and rising to self-transcendence. |
| Stress | The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events that we appraise as threatening or challenging. |
| General Adaptation Syndrome | The body's adaptive response to stress in three stages—alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. |
| Tend-and-Befriend Response | Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others and bond with them. |
| Health Psychology | A subfield of psychology that contributes to behavioral medicine, exploring the connections between psychological factors and physical health. |
| Psychoneuroimmunology | The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system and health. |
| Coronary Heart Disease | The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in many developed countries. |
| Type A | Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. |
| Type B | Friedman and Rosenman's term for easygoing, relaxed people. |
| Catharsis | The emotional release provided by an aggressive or emotional outpouring. |
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