Emotion/Motivation/Stress
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shellivogt on January 14, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Psychology | science of behavior and mental processes |
| Aristotle | He preferred data over logic and thought that the soul was not seperable from the body, knowledge is NOT pre-existing... experiences! |
| Extrinsic v. Instrinsic | Externally motivated. vs. Internally motivated |
| Theory X | assumes workers are lazy, error prone, and extrinsically motivated by money |
| Theory Y | assumes that workers are motivated to achieve self esteem and to demonstrate competence and creativity |
| Arousal Theory | based on the ideas that different individuals perform better at different levels of arousal and that every individual seeks to find its optimum level. Some people enjoy a quite evening to relax while others might prefer a loud concert to end a tough week. |
| Drive-reduction theory | idea that a pysiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need (need water, drive is thirst, drink to reduce thirst) |
| Homeostasis | tendency to maintain a balanced/ constant internal state ; regulation |
| Lateral Hypothalamus | hunger driving hormone is orexin and this part of the brain brings hunger |
| Ventromedial Hypothalamus | depresses hunger |
| Hypothalamus | influences how much glucose is turned into fat |
| Instinct | a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |
| Anorexia v. Bulimia | When you don't eat and you get really skinny v. When you binge and purge and your still normal body (in the second one a lot of acid comes up because you keep throwing up) ` |
| Sexual Response cycle | 1. Excitement 2. Plateau 3. Orgasm 4. Resolution |
| Refractory Period | during resolution phase, a resting period after orgasm after which a man cannot achieve another orgasm |
| Sexual orientation | enduring sexual attraction to members of the same/ opposite sex |
| James-Lange Theory | theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our pysiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers pysiological response and subjective experience of emotion |
| Two-factor theory | Schachter's theory that to experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal |
| Role of Glucose | a form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides major source of energy for blood tissues. Level low of glucose equals HUNGER! |
| Norepinephrine | a stress hormone that triggers stress related physical responses to occer (increase heart rate etc) and releases glucose |
| Epinephrine | adrenaline (hormone and neurotransmitter) |
| Maslows Hierarchy | used to understand human motivation, management training, and personal development. 1. self-actualization 2. esteem 3. love/belong 4. safety 5. pysiological (from top of pyramid to the bottom) |
| Stages of Stress | 1. Alarm Stage 2. Resistance Stage 3. Exhaustion stage |
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