Human Behavior Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are – from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics
  2. 9. Move towards the conflicting situation
  3. 11. Negative or harmful stress that causes us to constantly re-adjust or adapt.
  4. 12. An aim or purpose.
  5. 13. Consists are our values, morals, religious beliefs and ideals of our parents and society
  6. 15. Occurs when stressful events pile up and stretch the limits of our adaptability.
  7. 17. Being composed of different elements such as people of difference races
  8. 19. Responding to conflict situations by avoidance
  9. 20. involves efforts to overcome imagined or real weakness, limitations, or inferiorities by developing other areas of our personalities
  10. 22. The release of emotional tension through talking
  11. 23. Refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture
  12. 24. Preconceived, inaccurate, rigid beliefs about individuals or groups of people.
Down
  1. 1. When we prejudge a person or a group of people prior to having all known information and facts.
  2. 2. The personal worth placed on an object, thought, or idea.
  3. 4. Anxious feeling when we see a situation as more than we can handle.
  4. 5. Telling information about our personal lives
  5. 6. Good or short term stress that strengthens us for immediate physical activity, creativity, and enthusiasm.
  6. 7. Shock This is experienced when language and customs are unfamiliar to a person.
  7. 8. Looking for domination. Often times they intimidate and try to overpower other people. Behaviors include fighting, blaming, accusing, threatening, and ‘stepping on people’.
  8. 10. Rational part of the psyche. Mediates between the instinctual desires of the id and the moral constraints of the superego
  9. 14. People who believe that their culture is the most natural or the best, which can lead to hatred and violence.
  10. 16. When a person takes on the customs and languages of a new culture and puts aside some habits and patterns of the old culture.
  11. 18. Occurs when we are bored, lacking stimulation, or unchallenged. Is also considered a negative type of stress.
  12. 21. a stressful event