Exam 3

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Motivation

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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior towards a goal

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Homeostasis

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A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level. "staying the same"

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Set point

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The point at which and individual's "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost of weight.

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Metabolism

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Rate of energy expenditure

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Hypothalamus

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A neural structure lying below (hypo) the thalamus; it directs several maintenance activities (eating, drinking, body temperature), helps govern that endocrine system via the pituitary gland, and is linked to emotions.

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Anorexia nervosa

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An eating disorder in which a -weight person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15 % or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve.

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Bulimia nervosa

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An eating disorder characterized by episodes if overeating, usually of high- calories foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise

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Master & Johnson: Sexual reponse cycle

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The four Stages of sexual responding describe Master and Johnson *excitement*Plateau*orgasm*resolution*

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Sexual orientation

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An enduring sexual attraction toward member of either's one own sex(homosexual orientation) or the other sex (heterosexual orientation)

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Extrinsic motivation

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A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment. Receiving a reward or good grade to keep you motivated.

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Intrinsic motivation

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A desire to preform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective. Motivates to work or play, seeking enjoyment, or challenge. Love what you do for the pleasure, no reward.

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Personality

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an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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Frued / psychoanalysis

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Frued theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Frued believed the patients free associations, resistance, dreams, and transference and the therapist's interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Free association

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in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.

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Unconscious

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According to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologist, information processing of which we are unaware.

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Projective test

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A personalty test, such as the Rorschach ink blot test, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of ones inner dynamic.

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Rorschach Ink blot

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the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretation of the blots.

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Humanistic perspective

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Emphasize our capacity for healthy growth and self-realization. Personality come from our attempts to reach our adult potential; to become self-actualized.

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Trait theory

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A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self report inventories and peer reports.

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Big five Traits

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Personality Factors:
Emotional stability, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness.

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Social-cognitive perspective

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Views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons (and their thinking) and their social context.

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Internal locus of control

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the perception that one controls one's own fate. Achieve better, act more independently.

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External locus of control

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the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate. People feel more depressed and helpless

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Barnum effect

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tendency to accept description of our personality that are generally true of everyone. Strongest when description are favorable.

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Arousal

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is the main characteristic of all emotions.

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Performance

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Sympathetic nervous system

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The division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situation.

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Brain area & Emotion

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specific emotions are associated with different pattern of brain activity. Limbic system and frontal lobes.

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Lie detector

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AKA the polygraph test, does not actually detect lies. It measures physiological changes, blood pressure, heart rate, perspiration and respiratory.

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Facial expression

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Are the same everywhere

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Facial feedback effect

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While one is watching another person effects and the other person express what they see will also effect them and feel their pain.

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Hand gestures

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Cultural difference, hand gesture varies by the culture.

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Catharsis hypothesis

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Emotional release. In psychology, the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggression energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggression urges.

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Feel-good, do good phenom

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people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood.

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Adaptation-level phenom

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our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a "neutral" level defined by our prior experience.

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Relative deprivation

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the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself.

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Stress

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the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenges.

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Type-A personality

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Friedman and Rosenman's term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

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Type-B personality

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Friedman and Rosenman's term for easy going, relaxed people.

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Psycho-physiological illness

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Literally, "mind-body" illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches

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Aerobic exercise

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Sustained exercise that increase heart and lungs fitness; may also alleviate depression and anxiety.

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Sexual Disorder

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Problems that consistently impair sexual arousal or functioning
Men- premature ejaculation, impotence.
Female- orgasmic disorder, low sex drive.

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Refractory period

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resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm.

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id

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contains reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that , according to Freud, strive to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive desire. The pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

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Achievement Motivation

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as a desire for significant accomplishment, for mastering skills, or ideas, for control, and for rapidly attaining high standard.