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Positive Psychology
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Apply sociology and psychology to benefit society; create pro social models.
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Personal Control
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Our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless.
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External locus of control
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The perception that chance or outside forces beyond ones personal control determines ones fate.
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Internal locus of control
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The perception that one controls ones own fate
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Effort Justification
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Form of cognitive distance where we are more satisfied with working hard for a goal than one obtained with less effort.
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Learned Hopelessness.
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Hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive affects.
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Self-fulfilling prophecy
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Occurs when one person's belief about others leads one to act in ways that induce others to appear to confirm he belief.
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