According to Your Textbook, Receiving Positive Feedback and Enhancing Self-Image

question 125

Multiple Choice

According to your textbook, receiving positive feedback and enhancing self-image are given as reasons why people:

• A) eat too much
• B) engage in emotional coping
• C) start smoking
• D) develop a Type A personality

Understand the method and purpose of projective tests and free association in psychoanalytic practice.

Acknowledge the significance of unconscious mental processes in shaping human behavior and thought.

Examine the contribution of social-cognitive theories to understanding personality.

Describe the influence of inherited genetic factors on temperament and personality.

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Definitions:

Trivialize Cognitions

The process of minimizing or reducing the perceived importance or value of thoughts and beliefs.

Cognitive Dissonance

The psychological discomfort experienced when holding two or more conflicting cognitions (thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes).

Exercise Behavior

The patterns and habits of physical activity performed by an individual to maintain or improve health.

External Incentive

A motivator or reward from the outside environment that encourages specific behaviors or actions.