Anxiety and Coping Mechanisms
Feelings of worry, panic, fear, and dread
Anxiety
Aggression is always a consequence of frustration. The occurrence of aggressive behavior always presupposes the existence of frustration and, contrariwise, the existence of frustration always leads to some form of aggression
The frustration aggression hypothesis
Theory in which it it believed that early childhood experiences frame the parent (usually mother) as a "significant object" that creates the framework for all future relationships
Object Relations theory
Conscious efforts to cope with anxiety in the face of a perceived threat
Coping mechanisms
A form of indirect aggressive behavior where the subject may act aggressively towards close family or friends instead of the person actually causing the frustration
Displacement
The two most influential theorists of attachment theory
John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth
A person dealt with their anxiety about a sick family member by talking to a mental health professional, they used what kind of coping strategy?
Emotion-focused strategy
A release of tension that ends aggressive behavior, according to the frustration aggression hypothesis
Catharsis
One of the first surveys to measure people's attachment styles
Rocky Mountains Survey
When unacceptable id impulses are dangerously close to breaking into consciousness
Neurotic anxiety
The guy who said aggression is caused by a "frustrated libido" which blocks a persons pleasure center and activates the primordial reaction
Freud
The types of attachment styles that get anxious when separated from their partner
Avoidant and anxious-ambivalent
Name of a set of characteristics that predict resilience, like optimism, high self-esteem, and a positive disposition
Protective psychological factors
When you blow up on a friend for being late after getting an F on a test
Triggered displaced aggression
The conditions under which changing your attachment style is possible
A loving and trusting adult relationship