Stress & Happiness
Being happier and more thankful after being sick
What is Post-Traumatic Growth?
Defending unconscious impulses by attributing them to other people (thinking someone hates you when in reality you hate them)
What is Projection?
Willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences.
What is Openness?
Usual pattern of behavior, feelings, and thoughts
What is Personality?
Came up with the Id, Ego, and Superego
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The more you seek for happiness, the more distant is seems
What is the Happiness Paradox?
Going back to an earlier psychosexual stage (kid reverts to sucking his thumb on his way to the first day of school)
What is Regression?
Outgoing and experiencing positive emotions
What is Extraversion?
Relatively stable tendencies (lazy, agreeable)
What are Traits?
Reality principle, balances id and superego
What is the Ego?
Influenced by weather, good fortune, stressors
What is the Stability of Happiness?
Channeling unconscious impulses into productive outlet (someone violent plays football)
What is Sublimation?
How trusting, good-natured, cooperative, and soft-hearted one is
What is Agreeableness?
Achieving the same result across multiple observations/attempts
What is Reliability?
Primitive drives, pleasure principles
What is the ID?
Feeling worse off by comparing yourself to people who are doing better
What is Relative Deprivation?
Disguising unconscious content by turning it into its opposite (homophobia and being gay)
What is Reaction Formation?
Awareness of ourselves and our environment (organized, ambitious)
What is Consciousness?
Measuring/testing what you’re supposed to be measuring/testing
What is Validity?
The conscience, social ideals and morals
What is the Superego?
Two required components for effective stress management
What is (set time aside) to do (something you enjoy)?
Moving a troubling impulse onto a less threatening object (yelled at by your boss then yelling at your dog)
Degree of emotional instability or stability
What is Neuroticism?
The hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events
What is Learned Helplessness?
An unintentional error in speech, regarded as revealing something about our unconscious.
What is Slips of the tongue “Freudian Slip?"