Psychology Chapter 11-Important concepts: Part 2

Question 1

What are the misconceptions of happiness?

Answer 1

1. The prime determinant of happiness is what happens to us
2. Money makes us happy
3. Happiness declines in old age
4. People of the west coast are happier

Question 2

The Yerkes-Dodson law is popular among _______ psychologists.

Answer 2

Sport

Question 3

What is stimulus hunger?

Answer 3

According to the Yerkes-Dodson law, when we are under-aroused, we experience stimulus hunger or a drive for stimulation.

Question 4

What is sensory deprivation?

Answer 4

Go into an isolation tank and then start seeing shit.

Question 5

What are tendencies to approach?

Answer 5

Drives that predispose us toward certain stimuli.

Question 6

What are tendencies toward avoidance?

Answer 6

Drive that predisposed us away from certain stimuli.

Question 7

What are the different approach/avoidance conflicts?

Answer 7

AP-AV
AP-AP
AV-AV
Double AP-AV conflict

Question 8

What is intrinsic motivation?

Answer 8

Motivation that people feel from their own, internal goals.

Question 9

What is extrinsic motivation?

Answer 9

Motivation from external goals.

Question 10

What is the contrast effect?

Answer 10

Once we receive reinforcement for performing a behaviour, we expect reinforcement again but, when it never comes, we’re less likely to show it again, since we have nothing to gain.

Question 11

What are primary needs?

Answer 11

Biological necessities.

Question 12

What are secondary needs?

Answer 12

Psychological desires.

Question 13

What role does the lateral hypothalamus play in eating?

Answer 13

role in initiating eating-feeding centre.

Question 14

What role does the ventromedial hypothalamus play in eating?

Answer 14

Serves as a satiety centre.

Question 15

What is ghrelin?

Answer 15

hormone produced by stomach, communicates with hypothalamus to increase hunger.

Question 16

What is CCK?

Answer 16

Cholecystokinin. Counteracts the effects of ghrelin and decreases hunger.

Question 17

What is the set point hypothesis?

Answer 17

According to this, obese people have a biological predisposition toward greater weight gain than does a thin person.

Question 18

A mutation in melanocortin-4 receptor gene does what?

Answer 18

People never seem full.

Question 19

What is portion distortion?

Answer 19

Because we think in units, making the plate smaller, makes us think portions are bigger.

Question 20

What is unit bias?

Answer 20

Heuristic controlling portions of food consumed.

Question 21

What is libido?

Answer 21

Sexual desire

Question 22

What is the exotic-become-erotic theory?

Answer 22

According to Bem, non-conforming children feel different and estranged from their peers and perceive their same sex peers as unfamiliar an exotic, leading to arousal for the same sex.

Question 23

What do androgens do?

Answer 23

Influence whether the brains sets the child on a path to a more masculine or feminine characteristics. (sex hormone)

Question 24

Does having older brothers increase the chance of homosexuality?

Answer 24

yes

Question 25

What three major principles guide attraction and relationship formation?

Answer 25

proximity, similarity, reciprocity

Question 26

Men prefer what in women?

Answer 26

Younger, 0.7 hip to waist ratio.

Question 27

Women prefer?

Answer 27

Older men, larger hip to waist ratio, money.

Question 28

What is the social role theory?

Answer 28

Women have children, men provide.

Question 29

Do we prefer average features?

Answer 29

yes

Question 30

What are the corners of Robert Sternberg’s triangular theory of love?

Answer 30

intimacy, passion, commitment.

Question 31

What does the triangle for the theory of hate have?

Answer 31

negation of intimacy, passion, commitment.