Part 4, Chapter 12 - Vocabulary These flashcards have been designed as a study tool to assist in your mastery of each chapter’s vocabulary and accompanying concepts. Instructions:  This is an animated PowerPoint slide show.  To use it as intended, begin the slide show by clicking on "slide show" (above) and then "view show," or by clicking on the slide show icon below.  For use in conjunction with: Personality: A Systems Approach, By John D. Mayer Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon  Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Flashcards by Rebecca Disbrow Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Passionate Love A strong feeling for a potential or actual life partner involving intense arousal and longing for joining with the other. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Companionate Love A caring and desire for another person with whom are lives intertwine. It emphasizes intimacy and concern for the other. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Assortive Mating The tendency to find a mate who is similar to oneself in one or more dimensions. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Complementary Selection The tendency to find a mate who is different from oneself on one or more dimensions. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Realistic Occupations Those jobs or careers dealing with work that must respond to definite requirements of land or objects For example, farmer, mechanic Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Investigative Occupations Those jobs or careers involving the investigation of information, or exploration of new ideas or possibilities. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Artistic Occupations Those jobs or careers stressing communication, creativity, art, and entertainment. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Social Occupations Those jobs or careers involving working with people. Including social workers, managers, and therapists. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Enterprising Occupations Those jobs or careers involving the influencing of others, including salespeople, politicians, and entrepreneurs. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Conventional Occupations Those jobs or careers involving work with numbers and letters, including secretaries, bookkeepers, accountants, and engineers. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Lotka-Price Law A law of productivity of the members of a given field that states that the square root of the total will account for half the productivity. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Type A Personality A personality type that emphasizes time pressure, competitiveness, achievement striving, impatience, and hostility, and that has been related to heart disease and high professional attainment. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Adaptive Functioning The degree to which one can solve the practical, pragmatic problems of life. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Personal Growth The degree to which one can attain inner understanding and wisdom apart from the social norms of success and failure. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Achievers Adults interested in both practical attainments and personal improvement. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Conservers Adults interested in practical attainment. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Seekers Adults interested in personal and spiritual self-development. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Depleteds Adults who are no longer seeking further goals in life. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) A manual of psychiatric diagnosis published by the American Psychiatric Association and providing the descriptions of mental disorders recognized by law in the United States. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Positive Psychology A scientific movement to identify the positive strengths in individual’s personalities. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Self-Actualized The state of a person who is able to develop his or her innermost self in a healthy fashion that represents, expresses, and satisfies his or her true needs and characteristics. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Peak Experience An altered state of consciousness in which one’s awareness appears to merge with a cosmic consciousness, and an individual feels at one with the surrounding environment or universe. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Philosophical Humor A type of humor employed by the self-actualized that gently pokes fun at the oddities and commonalities of the human experience. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood

Gemeinschaftsgefuhl An attitude of caring concern for the rest of humanity that leads to a desire to help others in one’s life projects. Considered to be a quality of the self-actualized person. Part 4 – Personality Development Chapter 12 – Personality Development in Adulthood