PY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lemonade, Explanatory Style, Assertiveness

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: Natalie Dautovich

Document Summary

We are driven and motivated to meet goals. Sense that your efforts will lead to success. Desire to do well in comparison to standards of excellence. Postponing immediate, short-term gratification in the service of long-term goals. E. g. , staying home and studying instead of going out with friends before an exam. Ability to delay gratification as a child is linked with better sat scores and grades. Pattern of behavioral and physiological responses to events that match or exceed your ability to respond in a healthy way . An environmental event or stimulus that is threatening. > combined effects similar to major life events. > microagressions- brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults. Make lemons out of lemonade ; see the glass as half-full . > three dimensions: internal versus external, stable versus unstable, and global versus specific.