Definitions
Section 1
Section 1
Define Emotional Regulation
Your ability to manage, control, and respond to emotions in healthy ways.
Define People Pleasers
Someone who puts others' needs before their own to avoid conflict and gain approval.
Define Acts of Love
Thoughtful actions that show you care, support, affection towards someone.
Define Personality
The combination of traits, behaviours, and thought patterns that make you “you.”
Define Environment
Everything in your surroundings that shapes you — family, culture, experiences, friends, school, and community.
Define Heredity
The genetic traits passed down from your biological parents.
Define Co-Dependent
Someone who relies too much on another person for emotional needs, approval, or identity.
Define Core Wounds
Deep emotional hurts from early childhood that shape how you feel, think, and act
Define Subconscious
The part of your mind that stores beliefs, memories, and habits outside your full awareness.
Define Attachment
The emotional bond formed with caregivers that affects how we relate to others later in life.
Define Socialization
The lifelong process of learning values, behaviors, norms, and social skills from the people and environments around you.
Define Narcissistic Behaviour
Someone who always acts overly self-focused, craves admiration, and doesn’t have empathy for others
Define Counter dependent
Someone avoids relying on others and rejects help or closeness.
Define Interdependent
Two people rely on each other in a healthy way with support.
Define Socio-Emotional Development
How people grow in their ability to understand emotions, manage feelings, build relationships, and interact with others over time.
Define Agent of Socialization
A person, group, or institution that teaches you how to behave in society (like family, school, media, peers, etc.).
How does secure attachment develop? Name 1 "wound" and 1 need
Develops from parents meeting all needs and high warmth.
Wound- Normally insecure, nothing extreme
Need - Healthy balance of closeness and autonomy
How does Anxious Attachment develop? Name 1 wound and 1 need.
Develops when parents aren't there all the time EX. Parent works most of the day.
Wound- "I will be abandoned", Scared to be alone, Stalks location and spams phone, didn't properly learn to self sooth
Need- Validation, Reassurance, Consistency, Physical touch, encouragement
How does Dismissive Attachment develop? Name 1 wound and 1 need.
Develops through emotional neglect which makes them think something wrong with them
Wound- Defective, Shameful, "I don't need them", Pull away/Push people away, Sensitive to critism
Need- feel safe, acknowledgement, appreciation, empathy, positive reinforcement
How does Fearful Attachment develop? Name 1 wound and 1 need.
Develops through chronic chaos EX. Parents drinking or divorce
Wound- Seek chaos, mix of other 2 insecure styles, bottle up emotions but release all at once, hypervigulent
Need- Keep self relationship, Stop putting others before themselves, Trust environment