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Unit 10 Psych Vocab Part 3

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