1. Type A/B Personalities Perceived 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. Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing and relaxed people.
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.