Pattern of enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize the way an individual adapts to the world.
What is personality?
100
The ego refusing to acknowledge anxiety-producing realities.
What is denial?
100
The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve life's problems, and seeking to master or reduce stress.
What is coping?
100
Exemplified by poor time management, difficulty concentrating, lacking in the ability to make the proper decision between activities, etc.
What is procrastination?
100
Circumstances and events that threaten a person and tax their coping abilities.
What are stressors?
200
Psychodynamic, humanistic, trait, and behavioral/social cognitive.
What are the four theoretical perspectives on personality presented in the book?
200
The ego seeks the security of an earlier developmental period in the face of stress.
What is regression?
200
Problem-focused and emotion-focused coping, meaning-making coping, active-cognitive and active-behavioral coping, and avoidance coping strategies.
What are the classifications of coping?
200
The influence of external rewards and punishments.
What is extrinsic motivation?
200
The response an individual has to stressors.
What is stress?
300
Views personality as being primarily unconcious (that is, beyond awareness), and as developing stages.
What is the psychodynamic perspective?
300
Linked adult personality characteristics to younger age developmental issues resulting in fixations.
What are the Freudian Stages?
300
"Thought stopping" strategy and "Empowerment" strategy.
What are the self-control strategies?
300
The influence of internal factors such as self-determination and curiousity.
What is intrinsic motivation?
300
How quickly the body mobilizes resources to deal with whatever is stressing it.
What is the alarm stage?
400
Developed the psychoanalytic theory.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
Represents fixations to flirtatiousness, heavy reliance on masturbation, and expressions of verility.
What is the Phallic Stage?
400
Exploring stress management, mediation, relaxation, and biofeedback.
What are the techniques used in "stress managing programs"?
400
In some cases, this is an underlying factor of a severe procrastination problem.
What is perfectionism?
400
Consists of the alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (G.A.S.)?
500
The ego's protective methods for reducing anxiety by unconciously distorting reality.
What are defense mechanisms?
500
The ego replaces an unacceptable impulse with a socially acceptable one.
What is sublimation?
500
Involves information and feedback from friends/family/etc. that one is cared and esteemed for by others, which improves mental and emotional confidence.
What is social support?
500
Outlines six career related personality styles; realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional.
What is the personality type theory?
500
Characterizes one as being competetive, hard-driven, impatient, and hostile. These people may also be at risk for coronary heart disease due to long term, unmanaged stress.