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Perspectives on Personality
Chapter 13 - Carver/Scheier
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
05/02/2015

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Action Identification
Definition
The way you think of or label whatever actoin you are performing.
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Attitude
Definition
A personal evaluation of the likely outcome of an action and the desirability of that outcome.
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Comparator
Definition
A mechanism that compares two values to each other.
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Deliberative mindset
Definition
A careful mindset used while deciding whether to take an action.
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Disengage
Definition
To cease and put aside self-regulation with regard to some goal.
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Feedback hierarchy
Definition
An organization of feedback loops, in which superordinate loops act by providing reference values to subordinate loops.
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Goal Intention
Definition
The intention to attain some particular outcome.
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Homeostasis
Definition
Regulation around a constant, steady state.
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Implemental mindset
Definition
A positively biased mindset that's used while implementing an intention to act.
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Implementation Intention
Definition
The intention to take specific actions in specific contexts.
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Means-end analysis
Definition
The process of creating a plan to attain an overall goal (end) by breaking it into successively more concrete goals (means).
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Negative feedback loop
Definition
A self-regulating system that maintains conformity to some comparison value.
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Principle
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A broad, abstract action quality that could be displayed in any of several programs.
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Program
Definition
A guideline for the actions that take place in some category of events (as a script).
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Subjective norm
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Your impression of how relevant others value an action and your interest in pleasing them.
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Subliminal Stimuli
Definition
Stimuli presented too quickly to be consciously recognized.
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System concept
Definition
A very abstract guide for behavior, such as an ideal sense of self.
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