Motivation, Emotion, Stress Flashcards
Sublimation
Turning inappropriate thoughts or ideas into some socially acceptable behavior
Displacement
The transference of an undesired urge from one person or object to another
Reaction Formation
Suppressing urges by unconsciously converting them into the exact opposite such as attraction becoming hatred….. i.e. People hate gays cause they secretly gay.
Regression
Reversion to an earlier developmental state
Suppression
A more deliberate, conscious form of forgetting
Repression
The ego’s way of forcing undesired thoughts and urges to the unconscious. This mechanisms is mostly an unconscious forgetting
Schachter SInger
This theory involves a physiological response, and a cognitive rational that you come up with to go with it.
i.e. You go see a puppy and the moment you know he sees you your heart races and you interpret this as you feeling excited and happy to see the puppy…. if it was an abnormal feeling, you would think something is wrong with you and you need to go see a doctor.
Answer choices for experiemnts with tranquilizers and adrenaline often look for a response that you would expect to see from someone who was not taking the drug…. such as a person on xanax sees other people calm and relaxed, so he becomes more relaxed… or a person on adrenaline sees people around him hyped up and excited, so he also starts to feel excited.. these are what schachter singer would say.
General Adaption Syndrome
- Alarm - body reacts to stress, sympathetic nervous system ramps
- Resistance - adaptation to stress, sustained release of cortisol in an attempt to maintain arousal.
- Exhaustion - body’s resources are depleted, often leading to death or disease
Primary appraisal
Primary appraisal is an assessment of how significant an event is for a person, including whether it is a threat or opportunity…. but is in the moment (what is currently going on in front of you).
Secondary appraisal
Secondary appraisal deals with how one copes or behaviorally manages themselves after a traumatic event.
Coping
Coping techniques can be adaptive, which increase our functioning, or maladaptive, which relieve symptoms temporarily but don’t address the root cause of the stress
Maladaptive Coping
relieves symptoms temporarily but don’t address the root cause of the stress
Self Sabotage
Behavior that creates problems in our life and interferes with long-standing goals such as procrastination, self-medication, and comfort eating
Social Loafing
The phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when working in a group than when working alone
Learned Helplessness
A state of hopelessness and resignation resulting from being unable to avoid repeated negative stimuli; often used as a model of depression
BioPsychoSocial
Literally a study which includes all three.
- i.e. lack of social support
- i.e. learned helplessness
- i.e. taking catecholamines
Primary drives
Primary drives—Motivate us to sustain bodily processes in homeostasis such as the need for food, water, and warmth
Secondary drives
Secondary drives—Stem from learning and are not directly related to the biological processes such as the drive to matriculate into medical school and become a physician. These drives also include emotions including the desire for nurturing, love, achievement, and aggression
Opponent Processing Theory
This theory explains that when one emotion is stimulated, the opposite emotion is suppressed.
Drive Reduction Theory (clear up)
This does not have to be solely the biological things such as food, sex, water, sleep… but can also be to eliminate unwanted feelings such as being threatened to lose you job (security), so you change your behavior and work more efficiently to not lose your job.
Primary Appraisal
The INSTINCTUAL feeling of a stimulus (fear, anxiety, stress)…. I say instinctual cause this is usually a quick and unconsious process, such as seeing a masked man with a gun you think DANGER without hesitation.
The initial evaluation of the environment and the associated threat. This appraisal can be identified as irrelevant, benign–positive, or stressful.
Secondary Appraisal
How one cognitively interprets the how they can handle of a process or what they do in response to a process…. This is how one decides they can handle i.e. the situation of the masked man with a gun.
Directed at evaluating whether the organism can cope with the stress. This appraisal involves the evaluation of three things: harm, or damage caused by the event; threat, or the potential for future damage caused by the event; and challenge, or the potential to overcome and possibly benefit from the event.
Cognitive appraisal
Cognitive appraisal—The subjective evaluation of a situation that induces stres
Agency
TAKE ACTION! Agency can be defined as taking control and acting freely in response to some outside stimulus.
WHen you hear agency, think take action i.e. join AA (alcoholics anonymous) to deal with drinking problem.
