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21 Cards in this Set
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Acheivement Motivation
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A disposition that represents the extent to which people are positively or negatively aroused by performance settings.
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Defensive High Self Esteem
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A positive self view that is fragile and vulnerable to threat
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Dispositional Optimism
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A disposition that represents the extent to which people have a positive, confident expectations about their own future outcomes.
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Dispositions
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Individuals' consistencies across time and settings in a specific type of feeling, thought, and or action, which make individuals different from other people.
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Identity
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The characteristics that individuals think define them and make up their most important qualities.
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Life Orientation Test (LOT)
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A measure of dispositional optimism.
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Minimal Group Paradigm
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A procedure in which participants are divided into groups based on trivial features or information.
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Narcissism
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A disposition regarding excessive self love
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Need for Cognition
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A disposition that represents how much people enjoy and engage in thinking.
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Optimal Distinctiveness Theory
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A model hypothesizing that people want to maintain a balance between similarity to other people and individuality from other people.
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Parental Investment Hypothesis
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The idea that having children is more costly for women then for men, which has led to the evolution of some differences between the sexes in the characteristics they seek in mates.
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Secure High Self Esteem
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A positive self view that is confidently held.
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Self Concept
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All information about the self in memory.
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Self Esteem
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A disposition that represents people's judgments of their own worthiness.
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Self Monitoring
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A disposition the represents the extent to which people rely on internal or external cues to guide their behavior.
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Social Identity Theory
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A model hypothesizing that people want to have a positive appraisals of groups to which they belong.
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Spontaneous Self Concept
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The aspects of identity that are in conscious awareness at a given point in time.
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
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A procedure that involves showing participants drawing of ambiguous scenes and asking them to write stories about what is happening, which are then scored for the presence of particular themes.
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Threatened Egotism
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A hostile, aggressive response to criticism from other which has been linked to narcissism.
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Type A Coronary Prone Behavior Pattern
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A constellation of characteristics, including impatience, anger, and hostility, which has been linked to heart disease.
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Uncertainty Orientation
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A disposition that represents the extent to which people want to learn new things about themselves and their environment.
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