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Part 4, Chapter 12 - Vocabulary

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For use in conjunction with: Personality: A Systems Approach, By John D. Mayer

Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon  Mayer’s Personality: A Systems ApproachFlashcards by Rebecca Disbrow

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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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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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Assortive Mating

The tendency to find a mate who is similar to oneself in one or more dimensions.

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Complementary Selection

The tendency to find a mate who is different from oneself on one or more dimensions.

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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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Investigative Occupations

Those jobs or careers involving the investigation of information, or exploration of new ideas or possibilities.

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Artistic Occupations

Those jobs or careers stressing communication, creativity, art, and entertainment.

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Social Occupations

Those jobs or careers involving working with people. Including social workers, managers, and therapists.

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Enterprising Occupations

Those jobs or careers involving the influencing of others, including salespeople, politicians, and entrepreneurs.

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Conventional Occupations

Those jobs or careers involving work with numbers and letters, including secretaries, bookkeepers, accountants, and engineers.

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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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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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Adaptive Functioning

The degree to which one can solve the practical, pragmatic problems of life.

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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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Achievers

Adults interested in both practical attainments and personal improvement.

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Conservers

Adults interested in practical attainment.

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Seekers

Adults interested in personal and spiritual self-development.

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Depleteds

Adults who are no longer seeking further goals in life.

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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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Positive Psychology

A scientific movement to identify the positive strengths in individual’s personalities.

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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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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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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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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.