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What are disease prone personalities?
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People with certain personalities take greater risks with their health so die sooner
Certain types of people are more prone to diseases (i.e. more likely to have health problems) and to premature death because of their personality-influenced behavior |
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Zuckerman's sensation seeking
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Sensation-seeking individuals tend to take part in more risky behaviors
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Farley’s Type T theory
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“Thrill Seeking”
Suggests a psychological need for stimulation due to an internal arousal deficit |
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Should a person with Type T personality be allowed to engage in thrill seeking behavior?
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Yes, so long as it is appropriate.
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the sick role
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The sick role is the set of societal expectations about how you should behave when you are not healthy
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Certain people respond to stressful life events by entering the sick role when there is no organic reason.
Why from a behaviorist standpoint? Cognitive psychologist? |
It is rewarding (positive (being taken care of) and negative (miss school))
Cognitive= attention and interpretations of bodily sensations. |
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disease or genetic predispositions to illness that affect personality
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somatopsychic effect
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Borderline Personality disorder includes ____ behaviors
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Impulsive, self-destructive, fragile self-identity, unstable relationships
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How is borderline personality disorder explained from a psychoanalytic, neoanalytic, and biological standpoint?
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Psychoanalytic- disruptions in psychosexual stages
neoanalytical- children do not develop trust and attachment that would be the basis for future relations. Biological-children come from families where affective disorders are common. (Tempramental predispositions) |
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What is diathesis?
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The predisposition of the body to a disease or disorder
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What is the diathesis-stress model?
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suggests that although a predisposition to illness exists, the illness itself will not appear unless or until it is elicited by the environment
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A tense, competitive style that is especially likely to be associated with coronary heart disease
____________ are constantly struggling to do more and more in less and less time results in excessive arousal of the sympathetic nervous system |
Type A Personality
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Termite study: Childhood conscientiousness was correlated with...
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longevity
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Sociability and longevity?
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No evidence that being extroverted prolongs one's life
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Cheerfulness and longevity?
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Cheerfulness is predictive of premature mortality
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children of divorced parents face _____ % higher chance of premature death than non-divorced.
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33%
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participants with married parents lived on average _____
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4 more years
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what kind of study was the termite study?
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Longitudinal study
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The Self-healing personality
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Mrs. Braucher
Control Do not feel powerless in the face of external challenges Commitment Feel committed to something important and meaningful Challenge Respond to life with excitement and energy |
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Two types of Self-healing personalities
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1) The active healthy personality
Functions best in a somewhat stressful environment Outgoing and spontaneous 2) The relaxed healthy personality Functions best in a low-stress environment Calm and philosophical |
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Healthy people first need to achieve balance in their basic biological needs and secure affection and self-respect THEN they can worry about beauty, justice, ethics, harmony
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Growth Orientation
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Experiences of positive emotions (i.e., joy, interest, contentment) can broaden people’s modes of thinking and responding FINALLY this brings more possible actions to mind
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Broaden and build model
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Identity and purpose
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For people who have had a brush with serious illness, some make life-changes
Tend to be always toward self-fulfillment A person’s sense of dignity has implications for health |
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Individuals view their lives to be ordered and clear, not chaotic and inexplicable
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Salutogenesis
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An important component of Salutogenesis is _____
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Sense of Coherence
A person’s confidence that the world is understandable, manageable, and meaningful |