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Type A/B Personalities Perceived Control

Type A/B Personalities Perceived Control. Group 12 Jessica Pryor Deleah Morgan Abbey Saal. Type A/B Personalities. Personality : the unique attitudes, behaviors, and emotions that characterize a person. . Type A Personality. Type B Personality.

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Type A/B Personalities Perceived Control

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  1. Type A/B PersonalitiesPerceived Control Group 12 Jessica Pryor Deleah Morgan Abbey Saal

  2. Type A/B Personalities Personality: the unique attitudes, behaviors, and emotions that characterize a person.

  3. Type A Personality Type B Personality Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing and relaxed people.

  4. Type A Personalities Type B Personalities • Competitive • Angered Easily • Feel Pressure • Impatient • Super Motivated • Live at higher stress levels • Time Conscious • Driven by the need to succeed • Often enjoy being in control and being successful (Ex: business careers) • Relaxed • Easy Going • Live at lower stress levels • Enjoy achievement but will not stress over a loss • Often Creative • Reflective • Tend to work steadily • Not highly competitive • Often find enjoyment meditating or in the arts

  5. Type A Personality Type B Personality • When in a stressful situation someone with a Type A personality will experience • Increase in hormone secretion • Increased pulse rate • Increased blood pressure • When in a stressful situation someone with a Type B personality will remain calm with little or no changes. Type A Type B

  6. Type A Personalities • People with type A personalities are more likely to experience heart attacks due to high stress levels. • In a study of 257 men who had heart attacks, 69% of them had a type A personality.

  7. Who is Who? Type A’s Type B’s

  8. Perceived Control The belief that one has the ability to make a difference in the course or the consequences of some even or experience.

  9. Perceived Control • The belief that one has the ability to make a difference in the course or the consequences of some even or experience. • Being able to control one’s environment usually eliminates stress. • Loss of perceive control can lead to higher stress and increased risk to disease and illness.

  10. Perceived Control • If one believes he or she is capable of producing a desired product rather than that of an undesired one, stress will be reduced and one may in fact succeed in the task. • Ex: John has a major test tomorrow and he has been studying almost nonstop for the past week. Come test day, John is very confident and feels that he is in control of what his grade will be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdePzNTup58&feature=context&context=C32a4a99ADOEgsToPDskJ3IHzINc9-_zwmjUFcUtEq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3drYo8IQTI&feature=context&context=C32a4a99ADOEgsToPDskJ3IHzINc9-_zwmjUFcUtEq

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