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psychology of personality

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Is stress subjective or objective?   subjective  
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According to the transactional model, what are the three potential effects of personality?   can influence coping, how a person appraises the events, & the events themselves.  
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Which personality illness model says a third variable causes both?   predisposition model  
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Which model focuses on bodily perceptions of illness?   illness behavior model  
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what are the 3 stages of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS)?   alarm stage, resistance stage, & exhaustion stage  
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what happens in the alarm stage of GAS?   flight-or-flight response activates  
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what happens in the resistance stage of GAS?   the body uses its resources at above an average rate, even though fight-or-flight response has subsided  
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what happens in the exhaustion stage of GAS?   the person is susceptible to illness, because physiological resources are depleted  
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What are additive effects of stress?   cardiovascular, autoimmune, chronic inflammatory, psychiatric, and substance use disorders  
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in _______ appraisal, a person perceives an event as a threat to his/her goals   primary  
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in _________ appraisal, a person concludes that he/she does not have resources to cope with demands of the threatening event   secondary  
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what is the attributional style?   the answer to the question, “where does the person typically place the blame when things go wrong?”  
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what are the three dimensions of the attributional style?   - external versus internal. - unstable versus stable. - specific versus global.  
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What are the three different coping mechanisms for creating positive emotions during stress?   emotion-focused, problem-focused, and meaning-focused coping  
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____________ optimism is the expectation that good events will be plentiful and bad events will be rare in the future   dispositional  
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What are the effects of inhibiting emotional expression?   may suffer effects of chronic sympathetic nervous system arousal  
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What subtrait of Type A is associated with cardiac problems and lethality?   hostility  
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Kody Scott (Monster) likely has which personality disorder?   antisocial personality disorder  
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what is the statistical definition of abnormality   whatever is different from normal is abnormal  
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what is the social definition of abnormality   whatever society does not tolerate  
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What do all forms of personality disorders result in?   impaired social relationships  
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What is the problem with both the statistical and social definitions of abnormality?   definitions are tied to changing social or cultural norms  
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What possible causes of altered personality would prevent someone from being diagnosed with a personality disorder?   drug abuse, medication, or other medical condition  
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