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psychology, test 1
PSYC 2101
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
09/07/2011

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What did Victor Frankl estimate were the minimum essential elements for survival?
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What does Blair Justice conclude is a powerful force for maintaining or regaining health?
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What are the benefits of self-disclosure?
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What is the criteria for judging values?
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What are the 4 kinds of distorted and inevitablet self-defeating thinking?
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What are the benefits of self-esteem?
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What are David Myers 7 enablers of happiness?
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1_ supportive friendships that enable compantionship and confiding
2_ a socially intimate, sexually warm, equitable marriage
3_ a faith that entail communal support, purpose acceptance, outward focus and hope
4_ challenging work and active leisure, punctuated by adequate rest and retreat
5_ positive self esteem, feelings of control, optimism, outgoing
6_ realistic goals and expectations
7_ a fit and healthy body
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What is percieved locus of control?
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Perceived control is defined as a generalised expectancy for internal as opposed to external control of reinforcements
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What is the internal locus of control?
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Locus of control in social psychology refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
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What is the external locus of control?
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Locus of control in social psychology refers to the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events that affect them
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What were Seligman's 3 levels of happiness?
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Pleasant life, Meaningful life, Engaged life
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According to Dan Gilbert, what is psychological immunity?
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biases and mechanisms that protect the subject from experiencing extreme negative emotions.
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According to Dan Gilbert, what is impact bias?
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the tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of future feeling states.
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According to Dan Gilbert, what is synthetic happiness?
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a choice you make when you don't get what you want
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What is the just world hypothesis?
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tendency for people to believe the world is fundamentally just
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What is the placebo effect?
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simulated medical intervention given as control treatments
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What is cognitive dissonance?
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having conflucting ideas sumultaneously
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What is the self-fulfilling prophesy?
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a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true
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What is cognitive conservatism?
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how hard it is to change a belief once someone has it
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What is self-serving bias or beneffectance?
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contribute their successes to internal or personal factors, but their failures to situational factors beyond their control
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What is self-esteem?
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overall evaluation of his or her own worth
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What is an irrational belief?
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an unhealthy, maladaptive belief that gets in the way of people's efforts to achieve their goals. associated with the words "must" and "should"
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What are the ABCD's of Ret?
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A- activating the event
B- belief about the event
C- consequent of the belief
D- dispute the belief
E- new emotional consequence
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