Frhd 2060 Exam #1 Questions with Correct Answers
The basic assumption of person-environment interactions is that - ✔✔Behaviour
is a function of both the person and environment
Competence - ✔✔Theoretical upper limit of a person's capacity to function
-Biological Health
-Sensory perceptual functioning
-Motor skills
-Cognitive skills
-Ego strength
Limitations in these factors=less able to cope with environmental demands.
Environmental Press - ✔✔Physical, interpersonal, or social demands that an
environment puts on people
Adaptation - ✔✔area where press level is average for a particular level of
competence- behaviour and affect are normal
zone of max performance potential - ✔✔slight increases in press tend to improve
performance
zone of maximum comfort - ✔✔when press level is slightly decreasing it facilitates
a high quality of life
Proactivity - ✔✔When people choose new behaviours to meet new desires or
needs they inhibit proactivity and exert control over their lives.
, Docility - ✔✔When people allow the situation to dictate the options they have,
the demonstrate docility and have little control.
Preventive and corrective proactivity (PCP) Model - ✔✔Explains how life stressors
and lack of good congruence in person-environment interactions results in poor
life outcomes.
Two types: Preventive adaptations and Corrective adaptations
Preventive adaptations - ✔✔actions that avoid stressors and increase or build
social resources
corrective adaptations - ✔✔actions taken in response to stressors and can be
facilitated by internal and external resources
Congruence Model - ✔✔In Kahana's model, people with particular needs for
search for the environments that meet their needs best
Loss continuum Includes.... - ✔✔Children Leaving
Loss of social role
Loss of Income
Death of spouse/relatives and friends
Loss of sensory abilities
Loss of mobility caused by poor health
The basic assumption of person-environment interactions is that - ✔✔Behaviour
is a function of both the person and environment
Competence - ✔✔Theoretical upper limit of a person's capacity to function
-Biological Health
-Sensory perceptual functioning
-Motor skills
-Cognitive skills
-Ego strength
Limitations in these factors=less able to cope with environmental demands.
Environmental Press - ✔✔Physical, interpersonal, or social demands that an
environment puts on people
Adaptation - ✔✔area where press level is average for a particular level of
competence- behaviour and affect are normal
zone of max performance potential - ✔✔slight increases in press tend to improve
performance
zone of maximum comfort - ✔✔when press level is slightly decreasing it facilitates
a high quality of life
Proactivity - ✔✔When people choose new behaviours to meet new desires or
needs they inhibit proactivity and exert control over their lives.
, Docility - ✔✔When people allow the situation to dictate the options they have,
the demonstrate docility and have little control.
Preventive and corrective proactivity (PCP) Model - ✔✔Explains how life stressors
and lack of good congruence in person-environment interactions results in poor
life outcomes.
Two types: Preventive adaptations and Corrective adaptations
Preventive adaptations - ✔✔actions that avoid stressors and increase or build
social resources
corrective adaptations - ✔✔actions taken in response to stressors and can be
facilitated by internal and external resources
Congruence Model - ✔✔In Kahana's model, people with particular needs for
search for the environments that meet their needs best
Loss continuum Includes.... - ✔✔Children Leaving
Loss of social role
Loss of Income
Death of spouse/relatives and friends
Loss of sensory abilities
Loss of mobility caused by poor health
