Chapter 1
Opinion of oneself, your worth, abilities and limitations, and how much you like and value yourself.
What is Self-esteem?
Mature independence and interdependence, achieve psychological emancipation.
What is Autonomy?
You accept responsibility for the consequences of your choices rather than hold others accountable if you are not satisfied with the way your life is going.
What is Maturity?
A dynamic state of physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is Wellness?
The positive stress response, involving optimal levels of stimulation: a type of stress that results from challenging but attainable and enjoyable or worthwhile tasks.
What is Eustress?
A mature, secure, and respectful form of love that prioritizes genuine connection, mutual well-being, and individual freedom.
What is Authentic love?
Psychological discomfort experienced when a person holds two or more conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or values, or when their actions contradict their beliefs.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
A systematic approach that emphasizes the social context of behavior and how gender affects behavior.
What is Feminist Perspective?
The attitudes and beliefs we have about ourselves and others that are a direct result of things we learned from our care takers.
What is the Inner parent?
A collection of symptoms that results from the mismatch between our internal circadian cycles and our environment.
What is jet lag?
The tendency to let the overall impression of an individual color the way in which we feel about their character.
What is the halo effect?
Has a detrimental effect on those we say we love.
What is inauthentic love?
being at least as interested in the well-being of others as we are with ourselves.
What is Social interest?
the rational part of our personality, part seen by others, balances the demands of the id and superego in the context of reality.
What is Ego?
Refers to women and minorities being placed in leadership positions when the risk of failure is high.
What is the Glass Cliff?
A sleep deprived individual will fall asleep more quickly during subsequent opportunities for sleep.
What is sleep rebound?
Characterized by an appetite for challenge, a sense of commitment, a clearly defined sense of self and purpose, and a clear sense of being in control of one’s life.
What is Hardiness?
You may believe you are capable of loving only one other person—that there is one right person for you.
What is The Myth of the Exclusiveness of Love?
The ability to understand your own thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and motivations, and how they impact yourself and others.
What is Self – awareness?
Teens put on hold commitment to an identity while exploring their options.
What is Psychosocial moratorium?
Aging that results from inevitable and genetically influenced biological changes.
What is Primary aging?
A complex system of beliefs, practices, and morals that relate humans to the sacred, spiritual, or divine.
What is Religion?
Strategies as behavioral reactions to stress that are judged to be relatively healthful.
What is Constructive coping?
If we get too close to others they will certainly discover what we are really like.
What is The Fear of Being Discovered?
You assume responsibility for your education; you question what is presented to you, and you apply what you learn in a personally meaningful way.
What is an Active learner?
High value on conformity and obedience, strict, tightly monitor children, and express little warmth.
What is Authoritarian style?
Intuitive thinking that comes from experience is combined with the logic of formal operations to produce a cognitive style known as relativism.
What is Postformal thought?
Forgoing immediate pleasure or reward for a greater one in the future.
What is Delayed Gratification?
Keeping us in the here and now, focusing on what is rather than on what if.
What is mindfulness?
The mistaken assumption that if two people love each other they would not have any need for other relationships.
What is The Myth that Love Implies Constant Closeness?