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Stress and Motivation Flashcards

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Distress

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Major life change stressors (negative)

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Eustress

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A positive stressor

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Hassles

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Everyday constant nagging stressors

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Uplifts

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A good thing that happens to us that protects us from the impact of our stress

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Approach-Approach

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Two good options and you can’t pick one

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Avoidance-Avoidance

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Two things you don’t want to do but you have to pick one

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Approach-Avoid

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One decision to make but it has both pros and cons

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Double approach avoid

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Multiple options which each have pros and cons

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Fight or flight response

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Sympathetic, Epinephrine, adrenaline

Breathing rate up, pupils dislate, heart rate up

Digestive track slows down

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm (initial fight or flight response)

Resistance (fighting off or dealing with the stressor)

Exhaustion (when the stressor is finally gone we hit a stage of exhaustion)

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Hans Selye

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Created GAS

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Tend to be friend

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Reaching out to other people when you’re stressed

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Shelly Taylor

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Stressed out participants than sent them into a waiting room

TEND TO BE FRIEND

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SRRS

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Social Re-Adjustment Rating Scale
Measures stress

Bad: doesn’t take into account your coping techniques or your appraisal of stress

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Type A

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Perfectionist, has to have things their way, competitive, highly driven, sometimes rude and harsh

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Type B

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Easy going, spontaneous, laid back, flexible

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Optimistic explanatory style

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Circumstances are temporary

Under our control

Specific to one event

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Pessimistic explanatory style

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Events are always your fault

Results are stable (the same) and global (effect on everything)

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Problem based coping

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We remove the source of our stress

Ex: dropping Spanish

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Emotion focused coping

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When we can’t remove the source of our stress we should manage our emotions using effective coping techniques

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James-Lange Theory

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Event causes a physiological response, than a perceived emotion

Body reacts first then your mind

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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Event and then physiological response simultaneously a perceived emotion happens

Body and mind react at the same time

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Two factor theory (schachter singer theory)

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Event than physiological response as you thin about perceived emotion and then perceived emotion

Body reacts then you think about why, then perceived emotion

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The cognitive appraisal theory (cognitive mediational theory)

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Event then thought then emotion (possibly physiological response)

Event happens, than you think about it and decided wether it warrants a physiological response or not

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Spillover effect

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When one event cause an emotion and that emotion magnifies in events that follow

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Robert Zajonc

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Gave them subliminal messages and then did the experiment with the juice

More juice drank- positive mood

Less juice drank- negative mood

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Low road

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Emotion from the event then senses then amygdala

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High road

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Emotion from the event then the senses then the frontal lobe

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Set point

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Set weight point by your body

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Basal metabolic rate

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Your metabolism

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Anorexia nerviosa

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Don’t eat

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Bulimia nerviosa

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Eat food than throw it up on purpose

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Binge-eating disorder

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Eat mass amounts of food in a single sitting

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Lateral hypothalamus

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Makes us feel hungry

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Ventromedial hypothalamus

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Makes us feel full

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Orexin

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Hypothalamus

Triggers hunger

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Leptin

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Fat cells

Increases metabolism and decreases hunger

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Ghrelin

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Stomach

Makes you hungry

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Obestin

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Stomach

Makes you feel full

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Insulin

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Pancreas

Controls your body’s glucose levels

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Polygraph

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Lie detector

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Facial expressions

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Used to show how someone is feeling

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Paul Eckman

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Extensive research into facial expressions

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Motivation

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Your want to do something

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Instinct theory

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People are motivated by survival needs

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Drive reduction theory

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When we are in an uncomfortable state it creates a drive and we are motivated to relieve that drive

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Homeostasis

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Constant internal temperature

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Incentive theory

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We are motivated by rewards

Extrinsic motivation- have to do it

Intrinsic motivation- want to do it

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Hierarchy of needs

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(From bottom to top)

Physiological needs 
Safety
Love and belonging
Self esteem
Self actualization
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Glucose

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A type of essential sugar in your body

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Unit bias

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The tendency for individuals to want to complete a unit of a given item or task

Ex: a portion of food no matter how big the size

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Adaptation level phenomenon

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The tendency to judge various stimuli and situations relative to those we have previously experienced

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Relative deprivation

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The experience of being deprived of something to which one believes to be entitled

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Optimal arousal theory

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Humans are motivated to maintain a comfortable level of arousal

55
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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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If there is too little stress or too much stress you will perform poorly, you need a median lvl of stress for optimal performance.

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