Studies the ways in which behavioral principles can be used to prevent illness and promote health.
What is Health Psychology?
100
Your characteristic pattern of behaving, thinking, and feeling.
What is the definition of personality?
100
Sexual Scripts
What is the term that describes a person's unspoken expectations for a first date, or sexual encounter?
100
exhaustion phase.
What is the phase your body is in when is breaks down and you become ill (according to the General Adaptation Syndrome)?
100
Psychoanalysis
What theory of personality was developed by Sigmund Freud?
200
an attitude that is negative, frequently depressed and hostile.
What is a disease prone personality?
200
A stable, enduring quality that a person shows in most situations?
What is a personality trait?
200
Gender Role Socialization
What is the term that describes how we learn from our environment how to act "masculine" or "feminine"?
200
Sympathetic Nervous System
What is the name of the nervous system that becomes activated when your body feels these symptoms: heart rate increases, blood pressure increases, sweaty palms, etc.
200
Superiority
What is the main driving force in personality according to Adler?
300
the mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment.
What is stress?
300
Self-Concept
What is the term for all your ideas, perceptions, and feelings about who you are?
300
Androgyny or Androgynous
What is the term that describes people who have both masculine and feminine traits?
300
Parasympathetic Nervous System
What is the name of the nervous system that becomes activated when you are relaxed?
300
Balance among the id, ego and super ego.
What is the key to mental health according to Freud?
400
An event or condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment.
What is a stressor?
400
An accurate appraisal of your strengths and weaknesses.
What is genuine self-esteem based on?
400
Gender Role Stereotypes
What is an oversimplified belief about what men and women are like?
400
Learned Helplessness
What is the name of the concept that explains why a battered woman might believe she can not leave an abusive relationship?
400
The Superego
What is the part of the personality that acts as a judge, censor or internalized parent for one's thoughts and actions, according to Freud?
500
Cortisol
What is the hormone that is overproduced during stress and suppresses the immune system?
500
The ID
What is the part of the Freudian View of Personality that is totally unconscious and motivated for immediate gratification of sexual and aggressive urges?
500
Instrumental (goal directed) behavior.
What is the type of behavior most parents encourage their sons to engage in?
500
Regresssion
What is the name of the defense mechanism that describes a person who begins to act or feel like they are returning to an earlier age?
500
Erotic or Erogenous Zones
What is the term that Freud used very broadly to refer to many physical sources of pleasure?