The dispositional approach to stress reflects this approach to the study of personality
What is trait?
100
Research by Kirkpatrick and Davis of the attachment styles (secure, avoidant, or anxious) of over 350 dating couples found this type of pair was most common.
What is secure-secure?
100
This is the fact that individuals acknowledge that their personality has changed in the past but deny that it will change in the future.
What is end-of-history illusion?
100
Choosing to self-handicap illustrates this way of maintaining consistency between one’s self-concept and one’s experiences.
What is denying the experience occurred?
200
The person-centered approach to stress is an example of this one of the five approaches to personality
What is humanistic?
200
This encourages people to focus on the present moment.
What is mindfulness meditation training?
200
Changes in the relative importance of different traits within the same person is the definition of this.
What is ipsative personality change?
200
Wishful thinking, tension reduction, and distancing are examples of this.
What is emotion-focused coping?
300
This is a defense mechanism in which the true unacceptable impulse is expressed by the opposite, acceptable impulse.
What is reaction formation?
300
Impulsivity is one of the six facets of the five-factor model’s trait of this.
What is neuroticism?
300
According to Seligman, this type of problem tends to have a biological basis, is difficult to disconfirm, and is associated with very general beliefs.
What are deep behavioral problems?
300
In terms of self-regulation, being in a bad mood or having hurt feelings has been shown to increase this.
What is the likelihood of self-regulation failure?
400
Research provides no support for this defense mechanism. Pick one: reaction formation, displacement, denial.
What is displacement?
400
Walter Mischel and his colleagues have proposed a model that views self-regulation as a contest between these two systems
What is cognitive cool system and affective hot system?
400
Longitudinal studies show that most of the sample changed both in the same direction and to the same degree. This illustrates that this changes, but this does not.
What is absolute; differential?
400
Regulatory mode theory understands procrastination by looking at the relative strengths of this.