Theories of Personality

3. The degree to which people regulate our social behavior, in order to make a particular social impression.
4. A pattern of "relatively permanent" traits and unique characteristics and individually to a person's behavior.
7. Knowledge structure about the self.
9. Enter-disciplinary approach to studying aging.
10. Pleasant, desirable stress that arouses us to preserve and accomplish challenging goals.
12. A trigger or stimulus that induces stress.
13. Definition of who one is; define who you are.
14. "Reality Principle"
16. The process by which a person learns one's culture.
18. "Pleasure Principle"
19. People in collectivist cultures
20. A set of related assumptions that allows scientists to use logical deductive reasoning to formulate testable hypothesis.
21. Ways to avoid awareness of unpleasant or anxiety arousing experiences.
22. A continuous state of arousal in which demands are perceived as greater than the inner and outer resources available for dealing with them.
23. Description of who one is.
24. A short term state of arousal in response to a perceived threat or challenge that has a definite endpoint.

1. Focus on sociability, family, and importance of in-groups.
2. Unpleasant, undesirable stress caused caused by aversion conditions.
4. The study of subjective experience or the meaning that a person gives to events.
5. Happiness and pleasure are the chief goals in life.
6. People in individualistic cultures.
8. Set of factors that activate, direct, and maintain behavior, usually towards a goal.
11. "Creating Guilt"
15. Esteem of the self
17. Focus on unique and independent aspects of the self.