Classes 14-16

Question 1

Emotion

Answer 1

a response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behavior, and conscious experience

Question 2

James Lange Theory of emotion

Answer 2

our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological response to a stimuli; when we experience a stimuli, we are aware of our physiological response (stimuli->emotion->action)

Question 3

Canon-Baird Theory of emotion

Answer 3

an emotion arousing stimulus, at the same time that you receive the stimuli, triggers the physiological response then you feel the emotion

Question 4

Two Factor Theory of emotion

Answer 4

emotions have two ingredients: physical arousal (reaction) & cognitive (thinking) lable

Question 4

Personality

Answer 4

an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting

Question 5

Trait Perspective

Answer 5

Gordon Allport; characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act; criticized as sometimes underestimating the variability of behavior from situation to situation

Question 6

Social-Cognitive Perspective

Answer 6

Emphasized how we shape and are shaped by our environment

Question 7

Humanistic Perspective

Answer 7

Focused on our inner capacities for growth and self-fulfillment; behavior is explained by processing conscious feelings about one’s experiences and needs; Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Question 8

Unconscious

Answer 8

(Freud) reserve of mostly unacceptable thoughts, memories, feelings, emotions, wishes; information processing place

Question 9

Preconscious

Answer 9

(Freud) some of our thoughts are stored temporarily and can be brought to our conscious

Question 10

Id

Answer 10

(Freud) operates on the pleasure principle; demands immediate gratification

Question 11

Ego

Answer 11

(Freud) operate on the reality principle; wants to satisfy it’s desires

Question 12

Superego

Answer 12

represents the internalized judgment; conscience; the voice of conscience; keeps things in check

Question 13

Collective Unconscious

Answer 13

A common reservoir of images derived for our species’ universal experience

Question 14

Psychological Disorder

Answer 14

a “harmful dysfunction” I which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive or unjustifiable

Question 15

Dysfunction

Answer 15

not functioning in the natural way our species was designed to function

Question 16

Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective

Answer 16

Contemporary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological and sociocultural factures combine and interface to produce psychological disorders

Question 18

DSM-IV

Answer 18

Diagnostic tool developed in 1994; Diagnostic Statical Manual; defines 17 major categories of mental disorders

Question 19

Anxiety Disorder

Answer 19

General Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Question 19

Anxiety Disorder

Answer 19

General Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Question 20

Panic Disorder

Answer 20

takes anxiety to the extreme; a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, chocking, or other frightening sensations

Question 21

Phobia

Answer 21

marked by a persistent, irrational fear or avoidance of a specific object or situation

Question 22

Major Depression Disorder

Answer 22

in which a person experiences prolonged hopelessness and lethargy until usually rebounding to normality

Question 23

Schizophrenia

Answer 23

a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions and inappropriate emotions and actions

Question 25

Learned Unconscious

Answer 25

hopelessness and passive resignation learned when unable to avoid aversive events; learned hopelessness