AP Psychology: Motivation, Emotion and Stress
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gracieb293 on March 24, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 who created General Adaption Syndrome (GAS)? | Hans Selye (coined the term stress) |
| what are the three phases of GAS? | 1) alarm reaction - heart rate increases, blood is diverted away from other body function to muscles that need to react 2) resistance - the body remains physiologically ready |
| what is motivation? | ... |
| what four theories seek to explain motivation? | ... |
| what is drive reduction theory? | give an example |
| what is set point theory? | ... |
| what is homeostasis? | ... |
| what are the criticisms to the hierarchy of needs theory? | ... |
| list the hierarchy of needs in order from bottom to top. | ... |
| how does the hypothalamus influence hunger? | ... |
| what hormones are involved in hunger? | ... |
| who came up with the sexual response cycle? what is it? | ... |
| what is industrial-organizational psychology? | ... |
| what is the difference between task leadership and social leadership? | ... |
| what is the James Lange theory of emotion? | the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion |
| what is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion? | implied that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers a physiological response and the subjective experience of emotion |
| what is another name for cognitive appraisal theory of emotion? | ... |
| how does a polygraph work? | ... |
| what is the catharsis theory? what are the criticisms of the catharsis theory? | ... |
| what is relative deprivation? | ... |
| what is the adaption-level phenomenon? | ... |
| who did numerous experiments using facial expression? what were the main findings? | ekmans? |
| what part of the brain recognizes fear? | ... |
| what is stress? | the process by which we perceive and respond to certain evens (stressors) that we judge as threatening or challenging |
| what hormones are affected by stress? | epinephrine and norepinephrine, enter the body from sympathetic nerve endings in the adrenal glands. |
| what system are lymphocytes part of? what do they do? | two types of white blood cells that are part of the body's immune system. B lymphocytes form fight bacterial infections (form in bone marrow). T lymphocytes attack cancer cells, virus and foreign substances (for in the thymus). |
| what is health psychology? | a subfield of psychology that provides psychology's contribution to behavioral medicine |
| what are the differences between a Type A and Type B person? | Type A: competitive, hard-working, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people. Type B: term for easy going and relaxed people type A are people have fattier blood, high cholesterol, and less healthy lifestyles |
| what is the two-factor theory? | to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal |
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