Motivation, Emotion, Stress

Question 1

Sublimation

Answer 1

Turning inappropriate thoughts or ideas into some socially acceptable behavior

Question 2

Displacement

Answer 2

The transference of an undesired urge from one person or object to another

Question 3

Reaction Formation

Answer 3

Suppressing urges by unconsciously converting them into the exact opposite such as attraction becoming hatred….. i.e. People hate gays cause they secretly gay.

Question 4

Regression

Answer 4

Reversion to an earlier developmental state

Question 5

Suppression

Answer 5

A more deliberate, conscious form of forgetting

Question 6

Repression

Answer 6

The ego’s way of forcing undesired thoughts and urges to the unconscious. This mechanisms is mostly an unconscious forgetting

Question 7

Schachter SInger

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

General Adaption Syndrome

Answer 8

• 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

Question 9

Primary appraisal

Answer 9

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).

Question 10

Secondary appraisal

Answer 10

Secondary appraisal deals with how one copes or behaviorally manages themselves after a traumatic event.

Question 11

Coping

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Maladaptive Coping

Answer 12

relieves symptoms temporarily but don’t address the root cause of the stress

Question 13

Self Sabotage

Answer 13

Behavior that creates problems in our life and interferes with long-standing goals such as procrastination, self-medication, and comfort eating

Question 14

Social Loafing

Answer 14

The phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when working in a group than when working alone

Question 15

Learned Helplessness

Answer 15

A state of hopelessness and resignation resulting from being unable to avoid repeated negative stimuli; often used as a model of depression

Question 16

BioPsychoSocial

Answer 16

Literally a study which includes all three.

• i.e. lack of social support
• i.e. learned helplessness
• i.e. taking catecholamines

Question 17

Primary drives

Answer 17

Primary drives—Motivate us to sustain bodily processes in homeostasis such as the need for food, water, and warmth

Question 18

Secondary drives

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Opponent Processing Theory

Answer 19

This theory explains that when one emotion is stimulated, the opposite emotion is suppressed.

Question 20

Drive Reduction Theory (clear up)

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

Primary Appraisal

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Secondary Appraisal

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Cognitive appraisal

Answer 23

Cognitive appraisal—The subjective evaluation of a situation that induces stres

Question 24

Agency

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Yerkes-Dodson principle

Answer 25

According to the Yerkes-Dodson principle, there is an optimal level of arousal for performing a task well. Too little or too much arousal negatively impacts performance.