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