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Unit 7: Review Flashcards

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Motivation

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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

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Instinct

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A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species

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Homeostasis

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A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state

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Drive Reduction Theory

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A physiological need creates an aroused tension state, which motivates the organism to satisfy that need

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Yerkes-Dodson

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

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Describes what needs must be met in order to satisfy other, less important needs

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What physiological factors produce hunger?

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The hypothalamus receives a signal of a drop in glucose, so it secretes appetite-stimulating hormones

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Glucose

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The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides for the major source of energy for the body tissues

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Set point

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The point at which an individual’s weight is set, when the body falls below or above it, it changes energy output

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Basal Metabolic Rate

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The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure

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Stages of the sexual response cycle

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Excitement - Genitals become engorged with blood
Plateau - Excitement peaks as breathing pulse and blood pressure rates increase
Orgasm - Muscle contractions happen all over the body
Resolution - Body returns to its unaroused state and the refractory period starts again

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Men vs. Women refractory period

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Men is longer

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Humans vs. other animals (sex hormones)

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Sex hormones govern human behaviors less rigidly than the behaviors of other species

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Why do humans have an affiliation need?

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Humans survive and reproduce better in groups

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Insecure anxious attachment

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Constantly craving acceptance but remaining vigilant to signs of possible rejection

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Insecure avoidant attachment

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Feelings of discomfort over getting close to others

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James-Lange theory

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Our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli

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Cannon-Bard theory

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Emotion arousing stimuli trigger the physiological response and the experience of emotion at the same time

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Two-factor theory

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AKA Shatcher-Singer, Emotions have two ingredients - physical arousal and cognitive appraisal

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Zajanc/LeDoux

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Some emotional responses, like simple likes, dislikes, and fears, involve no conscious thinking

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Lazarus

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Emotions arise when we apprise an event as harmless or dangerous

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Women vs. Men (Reading facial expressions)

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Women can detect facial expressions better

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Expressing emotions culture to culture

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Emotional expressions are understood across all cultures but the way they are expressed is different

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Facial Feedback Effect

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The emotion you display makes you feel that

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Behavior Feedback Phenomenon

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Your behavior dictates what emotions you feel

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Health Psychology

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Provides psychologys contribution to behavioral medicine

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Stress apprasial

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How you interpret a stressor

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Stress

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The process by which you perceive and respond to certain events

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

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Tend-and-Befriend response

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More common in women, people provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others

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Psychophysiological illnesses

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“Mind body” illness; any stress related physical illness

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Lymphocytes

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Two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system: B and T types

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Type A vs. Type B

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Type A is more aggressive and competitive, Type B is more easygoing. Type A has a higher risk of heart attack

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Unconsious mind

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Freud’s theory of personality that he attributes unconscious motives and conflicts to

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Psychoanalysis + Free Association

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Free Association is where people say their unfiltered train of thoughts, then get psychoanalyzed

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Id

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A reservoir of the unconscious, Wants immediate pleasure. Wants to satisfy aggressive and sexual needs

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Ego

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The largely conscious executive part of the personality that mediates the demands of the id, superego, and reality.

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Superego

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The part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and standards of judgment

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Freud’s Psychosexual Stages

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Oral - mouth
Anal - pooing and peeing
Phallic - incest
Latency - no sexual feelings
Genital - normal sexual feelings

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Oedipus Complex

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A boy’s sexual desires for his mother and hatred for his father

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Psychodynamic Theories

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Modern-day approaches to Psychosexual Stages

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Neo-Freudian’s ideas vs Freuds

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Neo-Freudians - shared similar ideas, but paced more emphasis on the conscious mind and doubted that sex and aggression were all-consuming motivations

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Alfred Adler

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Neo-Freudian. Much of our effort is to conquer childhood inferiority

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Karen Horney

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Neo-Freudian. Childhood anxiety triggers our desire for love and security

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Carl Jung

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Believed we have a collective unconscious of memory that traces from our species’ history

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Projective test

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A personality test designed to reveal hidden emotions and internal conflicts

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

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A projective test where people make up stories about ambiguous scenes

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Rorscach inkblot test

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The most widely used projective test, used to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of ink blots

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False consensus effect

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We tend to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors

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Terror-Management Thoery

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A theory of death-related anxiety; explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death

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Humanism

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Views psychology with a focus on the potential for healthy human growth

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Abraham Maslow

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Humanist - Proposed we are motivated by a hierarchy of needs, and ultimately seek self-actualization

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Carl Rogers

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Humanist - growth requires genuineness, acceptance, and empathy (person-centered response)

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Self-concept

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Answer to the question “Who am I”. If we do not feel like our ideal self, we feel dissatisfied and unhappy

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Gordon Allport’s traits vs. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory

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Allport believed we all had special measurable traits, and was more concerned with describing them than explaining them

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MBTI test

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Personality test that categorizes individuals into one of 16 personality types

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Eysenck Personality Questionare

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Measures an individual’s personality along three dimensions

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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“Big Five” Scale

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Measures the five most important traits in predicting personality: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, Openness, Extravesion

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Person-Situation Controversy

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Looking for genuine personality traits that persist over time and across situations

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Social-Cognitive Perspective

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Proposed by Albert Bandura, it views behavior as influenced by the interaction between people’s traits and their social context

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Behavioral Approach

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Focuses on the effects of learning on our personality development

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Reciprocal Determinism

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The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and the enviornment

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Positive Psychology

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The scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive

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Overconfidence effect

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Tendency for individuals to overestimate their abilities and knowledge. Leads to errors in judgment and decision-making

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Self

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Refers to an individual’s personal identity and sense of who they are

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Spotlight effect

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The tendency for an individual to overestimate the extent to which others pay attention to them

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Self-Esteem

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An individuals overall evaluation of their worth or value as a person

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Self-Efficany

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An individual’s belief in their ability to successfully complete tasks and achieve goals

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Self-Serving bias

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The tendeny to attribute your successes to internal factors and your failures to external factors

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