Stress and Motivation

Question 1

Distress

Answer 1

Major life change stressors (negative)

Question 2

Eustress

Answer 2

A positive stressor

Question 3

Hassles

Answer 3

Everyday constant nagging stressors

Question 4

Uplifts

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Approach-Approach

Answer 5

Two good options and you can’t pick one

Question 6

Avoidance-Avoidance

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Approach-Avoid

Answer 7

One decision to make but it has both pros and cons

Question 8

Double approach avoid

Answer 8

Multiple options which each have pros and cons

Question 9

Fight or flight response

Answer 9

Sympathetic, Epinephrine, adrenaline

Breathing rate up, pupils dislate, heart rate up

Digestive track slows down

Question 10

General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 10

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)

Question 11

Hans Selye

Answer 11

Created GAS

Question 12

Tend to be friend

Answer 12

Reaching out to other people when you’re stressed

Question 13

Shelly Taylor

Answer 13

Stressed out participants than sent them into a waiting room

TEND TO BE FRIEND

Question 14

SRRS

Answer 14

Social Re-Adjustment Rating Scale
Measures stress

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

Question 15

Type A

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Type B

Answer 16

Easy going, spontaneous, laid back, flexible

Question 17

Optimistic explanatory style

Answer 17

Circumstances are temporary

Under our control

Specific to one event

Question 18

Pessimistic explanatory style

Answer 18

Events are always your fault

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

Question 19

Problem based coping

Answer 19

We remove the source of our stress

Ex: dropping Spanish

Question 20

Emotion focused coping

Answer 20

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

Question 21

James-Lange Theory

Answer 21

Event causes a physiological response, than a perceived emotion

Body reacts first then your mind

Question 22

Cannon-Bard Theory

Answer 22

Event and then physiological response simultaneously a perceived emotion happens

Body and mind react at the same time

Question 23

Two factor theory (schachter singer theory)

Answer 23

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

Body reacts then you think about why, then perceived emotion

Question 24

The cognitive appraisal theory (cognitive mediational theory)

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Spillover effect

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Robert Zajonc

Answer 26

Gave them subliminal messages and then did the experiment with the juice More juice drank- positive mood Less juice drank- negative mood

Question 27

Low road

Answer 27

Emotion from the event then senses then amygdala

Question 28

High road

Answer 28

Emotion from the event then the senses then the frontal lobe

Question 29

Set point

Answer 29

Set weight point by your body

Question 30

Basal metabolic rate

Answer 30

Your metabolism

Question 31

Anorexia nerviosa

Answer 31

Don't eat

Question 32

Bulimia nerviosa

Answer 32

Eat food than throw it up on purpose

Question 33

Binge-eating disorder

Answer 33

Eat mass amounts of food in a single sitting

Question 34

Lateral hypothalamus

Answer 34

Makes us feel hungry

Question 35

Ventromedial hypothalamus

Answer 35

Makes us feel full

Question 36

Orexin

Answer 36

Hypothalamus Triggers hunger

Question 37

Leptin

Answer 37

Fat cells Increases metabolism and decreases hunger

Question 38

Ghrelin

Answer 38

Stomach Makes you hungry

Question 39

Obestin

Answer 39

Stomach Makes you feel full

Question 40

Insulin

Answer 40

Pancreas Controls your body's glucose levels

Question 41

Polygraph

Answer 41

Lie detector

Question 42

Facial expressions

Answer 42

Used to show how someone is feeling

Question 43

Paul Eckman

Answer 43

Extensive research into facial expressions

Question 44

Motivation

Answer 44

Your want to do something

Question 45

Instinct theory

Answer 45

People are motivated by survival needs

Question 46

Drive reduction theory

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Homeostasis

Answer 47

Constant internal temperature

Question 48

Incentive theory

Answer 48

We are motivated by rewards Extrinsic motivation- have to do it Intrinsic motivation- want to do it

Question 49

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 49

(From bottom to top) ``` Physiological needs Safety Love and belonging Self esteem Self actualization ```

Question 50

Glucose

Answer 50

A type of essential sugar in your body

Question 51

Unit bias

Answer 51

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

Question 52

Adaptation level phenomenon

Answer 52

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

Question 53

Relative deprivation

Answer 53

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

Question 54

Optimal arousal theory

Answer 54

Humans are motivated to maintain a comfortable level of arousal

Question 55

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 55

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