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Perceiving and responding to threatening or challenging events

The body's response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

Providing support and seeking support from others under stress

Psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine

The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes affect the immune system and health

Clogging of the heart's blood vessels, a leading cause of death

Term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive people

Term for easygoing, relaxed people

The release of aggressive energy to relieve aggressive urges

Alleviating stress through emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

Alleviating stress by changing the stressor or the way we interact with it

Alleviating stress by avoiding or ignoring the stressor and attending to emotional needs

The hopelessness and passive resignation learned when unable to avoid aversive events

The perception that outside forces determine our fate

The perception that we control our own fate

Meditation that increases mindfulness and reduces racing thoughts

When feeling good leads to doing good for others

Contribution to optimal functioning, positive traits, and positive institutions

The scientific study of how we think, influence, and relate to one another

Explaining behavior by crediting either the situation or disposition

Tendency to underestimate the impact of the situation and overestimate personal disposition when analyzing behavior

A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something

Influence through incidental cues like speaker attractiveness

Influence through evidence and argument

Tendency to comply with a larger request after agreeing to a smaller request

Set of expectations about a social position

Theory that we act to reduce discomfort when our attitudes and actions clash

Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group

Understood rules for accepted and expected behavior

Adjusting behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard

Influence resulting from the desire to gain approval or avoid disapproval

Compliance driven by the need to be liked or belong

Stronger responses on simple tasks in the presence of others

Exerting less effort in a group than when individually accountable

Loss of self-awareness and restraint in group situations

Enhancement of a group's prevailing inclinations through group discussion

Thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony overrides realistic appraisal

Unjustified negative attitude toward an individual or group

Overgeneralized belief about a particular group of people

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people

Belief that actions have morally fair consequences

Social group to which a person psychologically identifies

Group to which a person does not belong

Tendency to favor individuals who belong to groups we identify with

Blaming an innocent individual or group for negative experiences

Tendency to more easily recognize faces of one's own racial group

Physical or verbal behavior intended to harm someone

The idea that frustration leads to aggression

Culturally modeled guide for how to act in various situations

Increased liking for stimuli with repeated exposure

Intense positive absorption in another, at the beginning of a romantic relationship

Deep affectionate attachment in long-term relationships

Condition in which people receive from a relationship in proportion to what they give

Revealing intimate aspects of oneself to others

Unselfish behavior that benefits others at a cost to oneself

Tendency to not offer help in the presence of others

Relationships formed through cost-benefit analysis

Social rule that people should return favors and acts of kindness

Norm that encourages helping others in need

State of opposition or disagreement between people or groups

Individual or group behavior that benefits in the short-term but leads to a loss for everyone

Tendency to see oneself as opposite to the person with whom there is conflict

Expectation or belief that influences behavior and makes it come true

Goals that require opposing groups to work together

Passion and perseverance for meaningful, long-term goals

Characteristic patterns of behavior, thinking, and feeling

Theories that focus on interactions between conscious and unconscious mind

Attributing thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts

Reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories outside of conscious awareness

Primitive, basic, and fully unconscious part of personality

System of psychoanalytic developmental psychology concerned with personality

Component of personality that provides moral standards

Childhood stages where pleasure-seeking energies focus on erogenous areas

A boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy for the father

Incorporating parents' values into developing superegos

Unconscious responses that protect from anxiety and unwanted thoughts

Part of the mind containing memories and impulses beyond individual awareness

Examination using ambiguous stimuli to reveal unconscious thoughts and feelings

Projective test involving explaining ambiguous scenes

Projective test using inkblots to reveal unconscious thoughts and feelings

Perspective emphasizing the uniqueness and potential of each individual

The motivation to fulfill one's potential

Caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude that promotes self-awareness and acceptance

Thoughts and feelings about oneself

Characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition

Personality test assessing various traits and identifying psychological disorders

Perspective that emphasizes the interaction between individuals and their environment

The idea that behavior, environment, and thoughts influence each other

The true essence of a person

How one perceives oneself in the eyes of others

The tendency to attribute success to oneself and failure to external factors

Principle of being independent and self-reliant

Principle of prioritizing the group over the individual

A wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior

Theory that mental conditions are related to brain structure and functioning

Study of how behaviors and environment can affect gene expression

Handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental disorders

Chronic condition characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness

Conditions characterized by excessive worry and tension

Persistent and excessive worry that interferes with daily activities

Frequent and unexpected panic attacks

Extreme or irrational fear or aversion to something

Long-lasting disorder characterized by uncontrollable and recurring thoughts

Disorder that develops after a shocking or dangerous event

Persistent depressed mood or loss of interest in activities

Mental illness causing unusual shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels

Psychological condition characterized by euphoria, intense moods, and hyperactivity

Repetitive thinking about negative feelings and their causes

Serious mental illness affecting thoughts, feelings, and behavior

Disorder characterized by delusions and hallucinations

False belief or judgment about external reality

Long-lasting brain disorder with persistent symptoms

Severe symptoms followed by periods of few or no symptoms

Rare disorders where conscious awareness becomes separated from thoughts and feelings

Rare disorder with two or more distinct and alternating identities

Inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

Personality disorder characterized by a lack of conscience and disregard for others

Eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and distorted self-perception

Eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors

Eating disorder characterized by significant binge-eating episodes

Treatment involving psychological techniques and interactions with a therapist

Treatment using medications or procedures that directly affect physiology

Therapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Therapy focusing on unconscious motives and conflicts

Therapy focusing on unconscious forces and childhood experiences

Therapy that allows the client to explore and decide what to discuss

Therapy that applies learning principles to eliminate unwanted behaviors

Using classical conditioning to evoke new responses to triggers

Therapies that gradually expose individuals to anxiety-inducing stimuli

Behavioral technique combining exposure with relaxation to reduce anxiety