Ch7: Personality, Motivation, and Emotion

Question 1

libido

Answer 1

life instinct

Question 2

id

Answer 2

ruled by pleasure principle

Question 3

ego

Answer 3

ruled by reality principle (logic)

Question 4

superego

Answer 4

inhibits id, supports ego to strive for higher purpose

Question 5

psychosexual phases

Answer 5

(1) oral: sucking, chewing
(2) anal: elimination
(3) phallic: genitals
(4) latency: school, friends, sports
(5) genital: sexual

Question 6

humanistic theory

Answer 6

healthy personality development

Question 7

behaviorist perspective

Answer 7

personality is a result of learned behavior from the environment

Question 8

person-situation controversy or trait vs. state controversy

Answer 8

degree to which someone’s reaction is due to trait or the situation

Question 9

principle of aggregation

Answer 9

attitude affects aggregate behavior, not necessarily individual behaviors

Question 10

cognitive dissonance theory

Answer 10

we feel tension when we have thoughts that are incompatible

Question 11

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 11

emotional arousal (x) vs performance (y) is upside-down u-shaped curve

Question 12

James-Lange theory of emotion

Answer 12

stimulus to physiological response to emotion

Question 13

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Answer 13

stimulus to both physiological response and emotion

Question 14

Shachter-Singer theory of emotion

Answer 14

stimulus to physiological response to cognitive interpretation to emotion