1. Part 4, Chapter 12 - Vocabulary
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Personality: A Systems Approach, By John D. Mayer
Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon  Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach
Flashcards by Rebecca Disbrow
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2. Passionate Love
A strong feeling for a potential or actual life partner involving intense arousal and longing for joining with the other.
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3. Companionate Love
A caring and desire for another person with whom are lives intertwine. It emphasizes intimacy and concern for the other.
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4. Assortive Mating
The tendency to find a mate who is similar to oneself in one or more dimensions.
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5. Complementary Selection
The tendency to find a mate who is different from oneself on one or more dimensions.
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6. Realistic Occupations
Those jobs or careers dealing with work that must respond to definite requirements of land or objects
For example, farmer, mechanic
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7. Investigative Occupations
Those jobs or careers involving the investigation of information, or exploration of new ideas or possibilities.
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8. Artistic Occupations
Those jobs or careers stressing communication, creativity, art, and entertainment.
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9. Social Occupations
Those jobs or careers involving working with people. Including social workers, managers, and therapists.
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10. Enterprising Occupations
Those jobs or careers involving the influencing of others, including salespeople, politicians, and entrepreneurs.
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11. Conventional Occupations
Those jobs or careers involving work with numbers and letters, including secretaries, bookkeepers, accountants, and engineers.
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12. 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.
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13. 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.
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14. Adaptive Functioning
The degree to which one can solve the practical, pragmatic problems of life.
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15. Personal Growth
The degree to which one can attain inner understanding and wisdom apart from the social norms of success and failure.
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16. Achievers
Adults interested in both practical attainments and personal improvement.
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17. Conservers Adults interested in practical attainment.
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18. Seekers Adults interested in personal and spiritual self-development.
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19. Depleteds Adults who are no longer seeking further goals in life.
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20. 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.
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21. Positive Psychology
A scientific movement to identify the positive strengths in individual’s personalities.
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22. 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.
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23. 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.
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24. Philosophical Humor
A type of humor employed by the self-actualized that gently pokes fun at the oddities and commonalities of the human experience.
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25. 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.
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