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motivation
a need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it toward a goal
rock climber that cut off his own arm to save his life
Aron Ralston
the four different perspectives of understanding motivated behaviors
instinct theory (now ev. perspective)

drive-reduction theory

arousal theory

Maslow's hierarchy of needs
instinct
a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
examples of instincts
imprinting in birds

salmon returning to birthplace

infant's rooting and sucking
most psychologists view human behavior as directed by what and what?
physiological needs and psychological wants.
drive-reduction theory
the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
when a physiological need increases...
a psychological drive increases.
homeostasis
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
incentives
a positive or negatie environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
drive-reduction theory diagram
need--> drive--> drive-reducing behaviors
hierarchy of needs
Maslow's pyramid of human needs

self-actualization needs
esteem needs
belongingness and love needs
safety needs
physiological needs
methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem
algorithm
refers to a process that involves knowing, understanding, remembering and communicatin
cognition
examples of heuristics
forming subgoals
working backward
searching for analogies
changing the representation of a problem
information you don't need is stuck into a problem
irrelevant information
can only think of items in terms of their common use
functional fixedness
only using strategies that worked in the past
mental set
imagining boundaries exist that arent really there
unnecessary constraints
Simon came up with the theory of
bounded rationality
insight
sudden novel realization of a solution to a problem - in humans and animals
an aha! moment
language is:
symbolic - represents other constructs in our lives
semantic - meaningful
generative - infinite combinations and variations
structured - must have a set of rules to govern
phoneme
the smallest distinctive sound unit in a spoken language
morpheme
the smallest unit that carries meaning may be a word or a part of a word
structuring language
phonemes - basic sounds
morphemes - smallest meaningful units
words - meaningful units
phrase - composed of two or more words
sentence - composed of many words
semantics
set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences.

ex. semantic rule tells us that adding -ed to the word means it happened in the past
syntax
the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.

ex. in english syntactical rule is that adjectives come before nouns - in spanish it is reversed
development as kids in words
crying cooing and babbling are common across languages

6 months - babbling sounds begin to resemble surrounding language

1 year - first word - similar cross-culturally
thinking and language
intertwine
common cognitive skills in humans and apes
1. concept formation
2. insight
3. problem solving
4. culture
5. mind?
examples of animals displaying custom and culture learnt over generations
dolphins using sponges as tools
chimpanzees teaching how to use stone hammers
chimps orangutans and dolphins:
have used mirrors to inspect themselves
people that trained washoe with ASL
Gardner and Gardner
bonobo pygmy chimpanzees
can learn even larger vocabularies and perhaps semantic nuances in learning language
imprinting example
ducks will follow anyone
meme
a behavior that evolves in a gene
meme example
digger wasps leaving dead insects a few inches away from hole with egg
satiation
when your drive is reduced
father of motivational research
maslow
when stimulate lateral hypothalamus
turns hunger on; if you destroy this you will starve to death
stimulate ventromedial hypothalamus
satisfies hunger; if you destroy it you eat and eat
drive reduction perspective
physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
if you destroy the lateral hypothalamus
you will starve to death
if you stimulate the lateral hypothalamus
turns your hunger on
if you stimulate ventromedial hypothalamus
satisfies hunger
if you destroy the ventromedial hypothalamus
you eat and eat
what is the evolutionary perspective on motivation
instincts are complex behaviors that have fixed patterns throughout species and are unlearnt
young monkeys and children are known to explore environment with the absence of a
need-based drive
insulin is secreted by
the pancreas
glucose
the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. when it's level is low we feel hunger
PYY IS
the fullness hormone
ghrelin is
the hunger hormone
leptin
hunger-dampening chemicals secreted by fat cells
set point
the point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is supposedly set.
neophobia
a fear of new things
basal metabolic rate
the rate of energy expenditure for maintaining basic body functions when the body is at rest
anorexia nervosa
an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15 percent or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve
bulimia nervosa
an eating disorder - overeating and purging
eating behavior biological influences
1. mid-hypothalamic centers in the brain monitoring appetite
2. appetite hormones
3. stomach pangs
4. set point weight
5. universal attraction to sweet and salty
6. adaptive wariness toward novel foods
eating behavior psychological influences
1. sight and smell of food
2. variety of foods available
3. memory of time elapsed since last meal
4. mood
eating behavior social-cultural influences
1. culturally learned taste preferences
2. learned restraint in cultures idealizing thinness
sexual response cycle
the four stages of sexual responding by Masters and Johnson - excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution
excitement phase
the genitals become engorged with blood
plateau phase
breathing, pulse, and blood pressure rates continue to increase
orgasm
self explanatory
resolution
enter a refractory period
refractory period
a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm
sexual disorder
a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning
estrogen
a sex hormone, secreted in greater amounts by females than by males
testosterone
self explanatory
sexual motivation biological influences
sexual maturity
sex hormones, testosterone
sexual orientation
sexual motivation psychological influences
exposure to stimulating conditions
sexual fantasies
sexual motivation social-cultural influences
family and society values
religious and personal values
cultural expectations
factors attributing to teen pregnancy
ignorance
guilt related to sexual activity
minimal communication about birht control
alcohol use
factors attributing to STIs
high intelligence
religiosity
father presence
participation in service learning programs
sexual orientation
an enduring sexual attraction toward members of either one's own sex or the other
erotic plasticity
examples include women being more open to bisexuality, or high sexual activity with periods of almost none
fraternal birth-order effect
sexual orientation is the same among twins
ubuntu
human bonds defined by south africans
flow
a completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of one's skills
industrial-organizational psychology
the application of psychological concepts and methods to optimizing human behavior in workplaces
personnel psychology
a subfield of I/O psychology that focuses on employee recruitment, selection, placement, training, appraisal, and development
organizational psych
a subfield of i/o that examines organizational influences on worker satisfaction and productivity and facilitates organizational change
structured interviews
interview process that asks the same job-relevant questions of all applicants, each of whom is rated on established scales
achievement motivation
a desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people, or ideas; for attaining a high standard
three types of employees
engaged
not-engaged
actively engaged
task leadership
goal-oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work, and focuses attention on goals
social leadership
group-oriented leadership that builds teamwork, mediates conflict, and offers support
emotions
a mix of physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experiences, including thoughts and feelings
James-Lange theory
the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
Cannon-Bard theory
the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
two-factor theory
schachter-singer's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
the autonomic nervous system controls
arousal
the sympathetic division
directs the adrenal glands to release the stress hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine
the parasympathetic division
inhibits further release of stress hormones.
arousal and performance
performance peaks at lower levels of arousal for difficult tasks, and at higher levels for easy or well-learned tasks
emotional arousal
elated excitement and panicky fear involve similar physiological arousal and allows us to flip rapidly between the two emotions
the spillover effect
arousal from a soccer match or apolitical protest can fuel anger, which can descend into rioting or other violent confrontations
arousal fuels emotion; cognition
channels it
the brain's shortcut for emotions
sensory input may be routed directly to the amygdala (via the thalamus) for an instant emotional reaction and to the cortex for analysis
emotion biological influences
physiological arousal
evolutionary adaptiveness
response pathways in the brain
spillover effect
emotion psychological influences
cognitive labeling
gender differences
emotion social-cultural influences
expressiveness
presence of others
cultural expectations
infants natural occurring emotions
joy
anger
interest
disgust
surprise
sadness
fear
the amygdala - a neural key to fear learning
nerves runing out from knots of neural tissue, one on either side of the brain's center, carry messages that control heart rate, sweating, stress hormones, attention, and other engines that rev up in threatening situations
catharsis
emotional release. the catharsis hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges
feel-good, do-good phenomenon
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
remove rat's testes
no sex drive, inject with testosterone it reappears
male sex offenders
drug therapy that lowers testosterone and often reduces sex drive
female animals "in heat" express peak
levels of estrogen
women are more likely to have sex
close to ovulation (increased testosterone)
affiliation motive
need for social bonds
achievement motive
defined as desire for significant accomplishment
evolutionary theories on emotion
innate reactions with little cognitive interpretation; we emote because it is adaptive and aids in our survival
emotions and the autonomic nervous system
during an emotional experience our autonomic nervous system mobilizes energy in the body and arouses us

arousal in short spurts is adaptive. we perform better under moderate arousal

physiological responses are pretty much similar across the emotions of fear, anger, love and boredom
learning fear
we learn fear through conditioning and observation
cultural and gender differences
boys respond to anger by moving away from that situation and girls talk to their friends or listen to music

anger breeds prejudice

expression of anger is encouraged in individualized cultures compared to cultures that promote group behavior
altruistic behavior
you do it because you feel good
subjective well-being
self-perceived feelings of happiness or satisfaction with life can predict overall life satisfaction
adaptation-level phenomenon
our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
relative deprivation
the perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself
parental investment theory
males tend to mate with several females; females try to find one good male
rhesus macaques and gorillas have not passed
the red dot test
gallup developed the
red dot test
kohler
first researcher to prove that animals have a moment of insight
what is the largest influence of activating sexual behavior
peak hormone levels
concealed estres
when our mates do not know women are fertile and females do not know they are fertile
females have how much testosterone
1/10 the testosterone of males
social and motivation highly correlate with
your type of personality
midbrain
seat of emotion
limbic system
activation of three structures - hypothalamus, amygdala, hippocampus
amygdala associated with
fear and anger
fear cause the most
activation in your brain
john b watson
little albert one of the first psychologists to study fear
freud claimed your entire personality is developed by age
4
freud first
personality theorist
clinical and school counseling
follows psychodynamic perspective
personality
An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
freud
Freud’s clinical experience led him to develop the first comprehensive theory of personality which included, the unconscious mind, psychosexual stages and defense mechanisms
freud and the unconscious mind
To explore the unconscious mind, Freud utilized free association & dream analysis.
The process of free association led to painful, embarrassing unconscious memories.
The process of free association led to painful, embarrassing unconscious memories.

Once these memories were retrieved and released (treatment: psychoanalysis) the patient felt better.
how personality develops
Personality develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflicts between our biological impulses (id) and social restraints (superego).
id
Id unconsciously strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives operating on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification
superego
Superego provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
ego
Largely conscious, ego functions as the “executive” and mediates the demands of id and superego.
freud's psychosexual stages
0-18 months-oral
18-36 months-anal
3-6 years - phallic; incest feelings
6-puberty - latency
puberty on - genital - maturation of sexual interests
erogenous zones
id’s pleasure seeking energies focus on pleasure sensitive body areas
Ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

defense mechanisms
repression

regression

reaction formation

projection

rationalization

displacement
repression
Ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.
regression
leads an anxious individual to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage.
reaction formation
causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
projection
leads people to disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.
rationalization
offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions.
displacement
shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or persons.
Unconditional Positive Regard
was an attitude of acceptance of others amidst their failings.
assessing the self
In an effort to assess personality, Rogers asked people to describe themselves as they would like to be (ideal) and as they actually are (real).

If the two descriptions were close the individual had a positive self-concept
the trait perspective
An individual’s unique constellation of durable dispositions and consistent ways of behaving (traits) constitutes his or her personality.
personality dimensions
Hans and Sybil Eysenck suggested that personality could be reduced down to two polar dimensions, extraversion-introversion and emotional stability-instability.
the big 5
Today’s trait researchers believe that Eysencks’ personality dimensions are too narrow.
A middle range (five factors) of traits does a better job of assessment.

conscientiousness
agreeableness
neuroticism
openness
extraversion
questions about the big 5
how stable are these traits? stable in adulthood

how heritable? 50 percent or so for each trait

how about other cultures? common across cultures

predict other attributes? Yes. Conscientious people are morning types, and extraverted evening types.
social-cognitive perspective
Bandura (1986, 2001, 2005) believes that personality is the result of an interaction that takes place between a person and their social context.
What is a Detour?
a Slight Deviation made within the Scope of Employment. (Respondeat Superior liability applies).
humanists believed
we are more than sexual and aggressive beings we are more than mechanisms
carl rogers
came up with 12 step program, group therapy, and assessing the self
a healthy personality is an expression of
congruency
Depression and schizophrenia
exist in all cultures of the world.
defining psych disorders
Mental health workers view psychological disorders as persistently harmful thoughts, feelings and action.

When behavior is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional psychiatrists and psychologists label it as disordered (Comer, 2004).
medical model
etiology
diagnosis
treatment
prognosis
etiology
Causation and development of the disorder.
diagnosis
Identifying (symptoms) and distinguishing one disease from another.
treatment
Treating a disorder in a psychiatric hospital
prognosis
Forecast about the disorder.
classifying psych disorders
American Psychiatric Association rendered a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) to describe psychological disorders.
multiaxial classification
axis I - V
axis I
Is a Clinical Syndrome (cognitive, anxiety, mood disorders [16 syndromes]) present?
axis II
Is a Personality Disorder or Mental Retardation present?
axis III
Is a General Medical Condition (diabetes, hypertension or arthritis etc) also present?
axis IV
Are Psychosocial or Environmental Problems (school or housing issues) also present?
axis V
What is the Global Assessment of the person’s functioning?
types of anxiety disorders
Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder
Phobias
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
Explaining Anxiety Disorders
anxiety disorders
Marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.

This condition differs from normal feelings of stress, tension, or uneasiness.
wendigo
a disorder in india that you fear you will crave flesh
coro
a disorder in asia when men fear their penis will retract into their body
most serial killers are diagnosed with
antisocial personality disorder
GAF
your numerical assignment of how you can function in society
insanity
is not a psychological term
phobias
are the # 1 diagnosed disorder in the US
generalized anxiety disorder
"free floating" anxiety coined by Freud
Panic Disorder
sometimes called panic attacks
can lead to other disorders like agoraphobia
malingering
clinical term for "faking it"
TOMM
a test to assess malingering
free association
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
psychoanalysis
freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
unconscious
according to freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories

according to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware
freud's idea of the mind's structure
consciousness islike an iceberg's visible tip. note that the id is totally unconscious but the ego and superego operate both consciously and unconsciously
id
contains a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. operates on the pleasure principle
ego
the largely conscious "executive" part of personality that mediates among the demands of the id and and superego and reality. operates on the reality principle
superego
the part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment and for future aspirations
psychosexual stages
the childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital)
oedipus complex
a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and jealousy toward his father
identification
the process by which children incorporate their parents' values in their developing superegos
fixation
a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
collective unconscious
Jung's concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history
regression example
children and young monkeys will retreat to the comfort of earlier behaviors
Alfred Adler
"the individual feels at home in life and feels his existence to be worthwhile just so far as he is useful to others and is overcoming feeling of inferiority"
Karen Horney
"the view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self respect"
Carl Jung
"we can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology"
projective test
a personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics
TAT
a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes
Rorschach inkblot test
the most widely used projective test, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
terror-management theory
proposes that faith in one's worldview and the pursuit of self-esteem provide protection against a deeply rooted fear of death
unconditional positive regard
rogers; an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
self-concept
all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question "who am i?"
trait
a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports
personality stabilty
with age, personality traits become more stable
social-cognitive perspective
views behavior as influenced by the interaction between persons and their social context
reciprocal determinism
the interacting influences between personality and environmental factors
personality biological influences
genetically determined termperament
personality psychological influences
learned responses
unconscious thought processes
optimistic or pessimistic attributional style
personality social-cultural influences
childhood experiences
influence of the situation
cultural expectations
social support
personal control
our sense of controlling our environment rather than feeling helpless
external locus of control
the perception that chance or outside forces beyond one's personal control determine one's fate
internal locus of control
the perception that one controls one's own fate
learned helplessness
the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal or human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events.
spotlight effect
overestimating others' noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us)
self-esteem
one's feelings of high or low self-worth
self-serving bias
a readiness to perceive oneself favorably
psychological disorder
deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
a psychological disorder marked by the appearace by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms; extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
medical model
the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. when applied to psychological disorders, the medical model assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital
psychological disorder biological influences
evolution
individual genes
brain structure and chemistry
psychological disorder psychological influences
stress
trauma
learned helplessness
mood-related perceptions and memories
psychological disorder social--cultural
roles
expectations
definitions of normality and disorder
murderous minds
PET scans illustrate reduced activation in a murderer's frontal cortex
somatoform disorders
characterized by physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions
somatization disorder
marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin
conversion disorder
marked by significant loss of physical function, usually in a single organ system
hypochondriasis
marked by excessive preoccupation with health concerns and developing a physical illness