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UNIT 7: MOTIVATION, EMOTION,PERSONALITY Flashcards

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Instinct Theory

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“The Evolutionary Perspective”
People are motivated to
behave in certain ways
because they are
evolutionarily/genetically
programmed to do so
with survival instincts

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Incentive Theory

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We are pulled into action
by—positive or negative—
outside incentives

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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Increased arousal can
help improve
performance, but only up
to a certain point. At the
point when arousal
becomes excessive,
performance diminishes

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs

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Abraham Maslow
suggested that people
are motivated by a
hierarchy of needs
● Bottom-Up, Psychological
needs, safety needs,
belongingness & love
needs, esteem needs, self
actualization

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Self-efficacy

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Is a person’s belief in their
ability to succeed in a
particular situation

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Hypothalamus

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Most of the
biological feeling of hunger
comes from this brain
structure

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Lateral hypothalamus
(LH) “Hungry”

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The “on”
button for eating. If
stimulated, causes you to
feel hunger

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Ventromedial
hypothalamus (VMH)
“Full”

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The “off” button for
eating. when stimulated,
makes you feel full

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Behavior that is driven by
internal rewards
(autonomy, mastery,
purpose)

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Behavior that is driven by
external rewards such as
money, fame, grades, and
praise

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Overjustification Effect

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Phenomenon in which
being rewarded for doing
something actually
diminishes intrinsic
motivation to perform that
action

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Approach-Approach
Conflict

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Conflict within a
person where he or she
needs to decide between
two appealing goals

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Avoidance-Avoidance
Conflict

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Making a decision
between two equally
undesirable choices

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Approach-Avoidance
Conflict

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Conflict involves
making decisions about
situations that have both
positive and negative
consequences

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Sexual Response Cycle
(William Masters &
Virginia Johnson 1966)

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Stages humans go through
during sexual interaction

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Display Rule

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A social group or culture’s informal norms about how to
appropriately express
emotions

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Common-Sense Theory

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Theory in which a
stimulus leads to an
emotion, which then leads
to bodily arousal through
the autonomic nervous
system

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James-Lange Theory

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Emotions occur as a result
of physiological reactions
to events

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Facial Feedback
Hypothesis

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Facial
expressions are connected
to experiencing emotions

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Cannon-Bard Theory of
Emotions

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Suggests that
the physical and
psychological experience
of emotion happen at the
same time and that one
does not cause the other

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Schachter-Singer
Two-Factor Theory

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The physiological arousal
occurs first, and then the
individual must identify
the reason for this arousal
to experience and label it
as an emotion

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Distress

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Occurs when
people experience
unpleasant and
undesirable stressors.

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General Adaptation
Syndrome (GAS)

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Researched by Hans
Selye, the three stages of
the bodies psychological
reaction to stress

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  1. ALARM, RESISTANCE,EXHAUSTION
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Locus of Control

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Refers to the extent to which
people feel that they have
control over the events
that influence their lives

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Internal Locus of Control

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You believe that you have
control over what
happens

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External Locus of Control

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Blame outside forces for
their circumstances

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Psychoanalytic Theories

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Sigmund Freud
developed theory of
personality development

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Id

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Part of the human
personality that is made
up of all our inborn
biological urges that
seeks out immediate
gratification (pleasure
principle)

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Ego

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The largely
conscious, “executive”
part of personality that,
mediates among the
demands of the id,
superego, and reality
(reality principle)

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Superego

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The part of
personality that,
represents internalized
ideals and provides
standards for judgment
(the conscience) and for
future aspirations
(morality principle)

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Defense mechanisms

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Freud
proposed that the ego protects
itself with tactics that reduce or
redirect anxiety by distorting
reality

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DEFENSE MECHANISM

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Repression

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Acts to keep
information out of
conscious awareness

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Displacement

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Involves taking out our frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening

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Projection

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Involves taking
our own unacceptable
qualities or feelings and
ascribing them to other
people

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Regression

A

When
confronted by stressful
events, people sometimes
abandon coping strategies
and revert to patterns of
behavior used earlier in
development

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Denial

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Functions to
protect the ego from
things with which the
individual cannot cope

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Rationalization

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Involves
explaining an
unacceptable behavior or
feeling in a rational or
logical manner, avoiding
the true reasons for the
behavior

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Reaction-Formation

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Reduces anxiety by taking
up the opposite feeling,
impulse, or behavior

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Carl Jung

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Thought all
people shared a collective
unconscious. Common
collection of images that
we have gained together
as human beings from our
ancestral & evolutionary
past

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Alfred Adler

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People
compensate for inferiority
complexes based on
inadequacies

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Karen Horney

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Horney feminist
perspective to
psychoanalytic theory

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Thematic Apperception
Test (TAT)

A

Projective test
in which people express
their inner feelings and
interests through the
stories they make up
about ambiguous scenes

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Rorschach Inkblot Test
(Hermann Rorschach)

A

The most widely used
projective test, a set of 10
inkblots, During the test,
participants are shown
the inkblots and asked
what each one looks like

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Reciprocal Determinism

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Albert Bandura proposed
that the person,
environment, and
behavior interact to
determine patterns of
behavior and thus
personality

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Raymond Cattell’s 16
Traits

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16 traits are the
source of all human
personality

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Factor analysis

A

He identified closely related
terms and eventually
reduced his list to just 16
key personality traits

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The Big Five Personality
Factors

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Model of personality
traits, many researchers
believe that they are five core
personality traits
● Openness to Experience,
tendency to appreciate new art,
ideas, values, feelings and
behaviors
● Conscientiousness tendency to
be careful, on-time for
appointments, to follow rules,
and to be hardworking
● Extraversion, tendency to be
talkative, sociable, and to enjoy
others
● Agreeableness tendency to
agree and go along with others
rather than to assert one’s own
opinions & choices
● Neuroticism tendency to
frequently experience negative
emotions

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Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory-2
(MMPI-2)

A

The most widely
used and researched
clinical assessment tool
used by mental health
professionals to help
diagnose mental health
disorders

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Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI)

A

Self-report inventory
designed to identify a
person’s personality type,
strengths, and
preferences

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