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Unit 7: Motivation, Emotion, and Personality Flashcards

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Instinct Theory

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+ complex behavior
+ Unlearned
+ Throughout a species

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Drive Reduction

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As physiological needs increase our psychological drive to reduce those needs increases.

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Arousal Theory

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When goal isnt homeostasis
+ after meeting basic needs humans need stimulation
+ boredom
+ moderate anxiety = motivation
+ Too much = Seek Arousal reduction

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Yerkes - Dodson Law

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Performance increases with arousal only up to a point, then performance decreases

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Hierachy of Needs

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  1. Self actualization - need for meaning beyond oneself
  2. Esteem
  3. Love and belonging
  4. Safety needs
  5. Physiological needs
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Hormones testosterone

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+ therapy can increase sexual desire in M and F
+ Sexual desire increase testostorone

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Alfred Kinsey

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+ institute for sex research
+ Kinsey scale
- Heterosexual - homosexual rating scale

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Incentives

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a thing that motivates someone (learned / enviroment stimulus)

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Ancel Keys

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Minnesota starvation experiment
+ food obsessed
+ lost interest in other activities

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Margaret Floy Washburn

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Washburn experiment aka balloon experiment
+ hunger = stomach contractions

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As glucose levels drop….

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brain signals hunger

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Hypothalamus

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stimulation = releases hunger hormones - rat experiment
+ Destroy it = no interest in food
+ watches for ghrelin (secreted by empty stomach)
+ signals hypothalamus - food is needed

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BASAL METABOLIC RATE

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Body’s resting of energy output

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Bio Taste preference

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High calories, high carb meals boost serotonin

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Affiliation need - evo perspective

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need to build relationships and be part of a group
+ Social bonds/cooperation boost survival odds “us” vs “them”

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self efficacy

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the belief that we can achieve influence over the conditions that affect our lives.

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Achivement motivation

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+ desire for accomplishments a higher standard of skills and ideas

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James Lange

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Arousal then emotion

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Cannon-bard

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arousal and emotion simultaneously

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Schachter singer

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Arousal+label = emotion

+ emotion requires conscious interpretation
+ high road

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Objective vs Subjective experience

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objective - the actual experience
Subjective - how we interpret the events

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Spillover effect

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An arousal response to one event spills over into our response of the next event.

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Robert Zajonc

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emotions can exist without conscious interpretation

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Joseph LeDoux

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emotions can take a low road
+ fear provoking stimulus bypasses cortex and goes straight to amygdala

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Richard lazurus

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In some level, we must appraise an event in order to have emotions
+ appraisal is more important to what is stressful than the actual stressful event
+ high and low road

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Facial Feedback effect

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+ smiling has a positive effect on mood
+ frowning has a negative effect on mood
Two way:
- emotion impact facial expressions
- Facial expressions impact emotions

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Stress

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short lived = good (assist survival)
long term = bad ( compromises immune system, risky decisions, unhealthy behaviors, dangerous pregnancy and health problems)

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Accumulative stress…

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declines over time

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Adrenal glands secret….

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cortisol

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Hans Seyle

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(GAS) general adaptation syndrome
+ alert
+ resistance
+ exhaustion

  • body made to deal with temp stress not prolongued
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How does stress affect me?

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+ Telomeres, shorten over time leading to higher risk of death, and cancer

+ wounds heal slow
+ more vunerable to illness

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Seligman

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Explanatory style - how people explain events in their lives

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Do - good phenomenon

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people are more helpful when they’re in a good mood

+ do good, feel good

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Coping mechanisms

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Diminishing returns

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as you increase the quantity of something the benefits decrease

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relative deprivation

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the sense that you are worse off than those around you

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personality

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pattern of thinking feeling and acting

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Freudian perspective personality test

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goal to uncover what is going on in your unconscious mind

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projective test

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any personality test to uncover your unconscious (ex: Rosard ink blot)
are they scientific? – NOT objective

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psychodynamic

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human behavior is a dynamic interaction btwn the conscious and unconscious mind

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psychoanalysis

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freud, thoughts and actions attributed to unconscious motives and conflicts

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Freud

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  • believed childhood exp determine adult personality
  • ” “ ian slips ex: calling your spouse your ex’s name or calling your teacher mom or dad
    -“ “ and reality– he thought these slips had a lot to do w/unconscious mind BUT in reality they dont mean much bc humans make speech mistakes
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Freud: Id - Ego - Super ego

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Id - satisfy sexual and agressive desires
Ego - “executive”, meditates between Id, superego and reality
Superego - internalized ideals , conscience

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Alfred Adler

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+ believed people were driven by a need for superiority, birth order
+ inferior complex

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Carl Jung

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+ collective shared unconscious

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Actualization

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self focused

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transcendence

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other - focused instead of self focused and concerns higher goals than those which are self serving

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Carl Rogers

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+ self concept
- distorded by outside influence
- healthy personality is when self concept is consistent with your ideal self concept
+ unconditional positive regard

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criticism humanistic theory

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fails to account human evil

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Gordon Allport?

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trait - consistent, enduring a way of feeling, behaving and thinking
+ describe personality in terms of fundamental traits

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Sybil and Eyeseck

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reduced personality to…
+ these factors are genetically influenced

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Social cognitive perspective - alfred bandura

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+ behavior influenced by interactions btw people traits and social content
+ personality is in part required through observational learning

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reciprocal determinism

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interacting influences of behavior, cognition and enviroment

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person-situation

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ppl make responses they believe will lead to reinforcement
+ belief: hardwork = reward then you will work hard
viceversa if no reward no work

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conclusion on behavior

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dependent on situation

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Criticism of social cognitive theories

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too focused on situations, ignores traits and emotions

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spotlight effect

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overestimating others noticing and evaluating on you

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Blind incompentence

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ignorance sustain self confidence
+ dunning krugger effect

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Self serving bias

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+ readiness to percieve oneself favorably
+ most people see themselves as better than average
+ blame others - negative outcome / positive outcome - praise oneself

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jean twenge

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generation and me
people bor in 80’s/90’s higher narcism lvls

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Individualism vs Collectivist

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Ind - priority to ones own goals over group goals
- identity in terms of personal attributes

Coll - priority of the goals of one’s group
-identity of others

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Assessing traits tests

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MMPI - widely for emotional disorders

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The Big 5 personalities

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Conscientiousness - disorganized or disorganized
Agreeable - uncooperative or helpful
Neuroticism - calm or anxious
Openness - conforming or independent
Extroversion - reserved or affectionate

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Maturity principle

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become more conscientiousness and less neurotic up to age 40

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Traits are stable BUT……

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behavior varies

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