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Psychology Final
Psychology 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Motivation | Need or desire that energizes behavior and directs it towards a goal. |
| Instinct | A fixed pattern of behavior that is not acquired by learning and is likely to be rooted in genes. |
| Homeostasis (equilibrium) | We want to be balanced. |
| Drive reduction Theory | The idea that humans are motivated to reduce these drives. |
| Intrinsic | Doing something because it makes you feel good. |
| Extrinsic | Motivated to help others. |
| Primary needs | Biological |
| Secondary needs | Psychological |
| Hypothalamus | Gives direction to all glands. |
| Setpoint | The weight your body wants to be at. |
| Social facilitation | Presence of others accentuates out typical eating habits. |
| Buffet effect | We eat more if more option are available. |
| Carbohydrates | Raises serotonin, reduces stress, and depression. |
| Anarexia nerviosa | Losing weight because of thought of being overweight. |
| Bulimia nerviosa | Binging and purging to lose weight. Usually the person is just right. |
| Excitement | Enjoys sexual pleasure and physiological changes along. |
| Plateau | Phrase in which sexual tension builds. |
| Orgasm(Climax) | Involuntary rythems contrations in the muscles of genitals in both man and women. |
| Relaxion | When people report relax ion and a sense of well being. |
| Premature Ejaculation Erectile Dysfunction | Low sexual desire and lack of orgasm response. |
| Sexual Orientation | Ones preference's as a object of sexual attraction. |
| Id | Striving to meet basic needs |
| Ego | Has thoughts, judgements, and memories. |
| Superego | Conscience internalized from parents and society. |
| Slip of a tongue | Say something on accident which means you really means your conscience. |
| Sigmund Freud | Had people speak their mind. Gave hints whats in the subconsience. Would listen to dreams and figure out what it means. |
| Erogenous Zones | Sensitive area of the body and is focus by id. |
| Oral Stage | Focus on the mouth. Birth to 12-18months. |
| Anal Stage | Focus on the genitals |
| Oedipus | Boys love their mother in a romantic way. See the father as rival. |
| Latency Stage | Dormant sexual stage. 8 to 12years. |
| Genital Stage | Reowned sexual impulse. Mature and more romantic. !2 years old. |
| Reaction Formation | Have desires but fights against it. Compensates. |
| Projection | You are angry so you think everyone else is angry. Distract. |
| What are flaws in Freud's scientific method? | Unfalsifability, Unrepresentive, and Biased observation. |
| Unfalsifability | Difficult to prove or disapprove. |
| Unrepresentiative | Sampling base on wealth neurotic women in vienna. |
| Biased observations | Based his theories on patients and told them how sick they were to look better. |
| How did Freud benefit psychology? | Impact childhood and Adulthood. Human sexuality, defenses, anxiety, and tension. |
| Self-actualization | Becoming the best person you can be. |
| Ideal self | The person you think you should be. |
| Abraham Maslow | Research people who were self-actualized. |
| Carl Rodgers | See why people are not self-actualized. |
| Three condition that facilitate self-actualization | Being honest and direct not using facade.Unconditional positive regard. Acknowledge feelings without passing judgment. Honoring, not devaluing. |
| Empathy | Turning feelings into others. Showing efforts to understand. Listen well. |
| Emotion ABC | A-arousal, B-behavior, C-cognitive |
| Arousal | Physiological, Fight or flight. |
| Behavior | How you are behaving. |
| Cognitive | Consciousness awareness of emotion. |
| Theories of emotion | James-Lange theory,cannon bard, Two face theory. |
| James Lange Theory | Body (arousal) then conconsiouness awarness of the emotion. Facial feedback, |
| The facial feedback | The Emotion follows the face. |
| Cannon bard | Body and conscious awareness happen at the same time. |
| Two factor theory | Body plus awareness (interpretation explanation) the emotion. |
| Mere Exposure | The mirror image of yourself that we see in the mirror everyday. Like familiarity. |
| long term happiness NO | Money, West Coast Living, Circumstances. |
| Long term happiness YES | Marriage, Friendship, giving, college, religion, exercise, gratitude, attitude. |
| Sexual Response Cycle | 1. Excitement 2. Plateau 3. Climax 4. Resolution 5. Refactory |
| Excitement | Physiological changes sexual tension builds. |
| Plateau | Maximal muscle contraction. Release. |
| Resolution | Relaxing, feel good, lots of dopamine. |
| Refractory | No orgasm, men only. |
| Intrinsic | Doing something to feel good. |
| Extrinsic | Doing something to get something out of it. |
| Drive Reduction Theory | Want homeostasis (balance) food and water. |
| Arousal optimumation | We get bored so we seek stimulation. |
| Hierarchy of motivation | We only meet the goals if we met the ones below. |
| Instinct/evolution | Something we know to do. It is innate. |
| Trait | A way that you are that follows with you. |
| Sensation seeker | Someone who does daring things and seek excitement. |
| MMpI-2 | Test design for someone with psychological problems. |
| NEP-PI-R | Try to write items that measure neuroticism. |
| Rorschach test (ink block test) | Describing paintings of ink that can be anything. |
| Thematic aperception test | Tell a story of a picture. |
| Graphology | Looking at handwriting to see personalty. |
| P.T Barnum Effect | Statement refers to everyone. |
| Social psychology | How a situation effects everyone around us. |
| Spotlight effect | People assume people are looking at you but they are not. |
| Explicit self-esteem | Peoples conscious feelings of value and worth. |
| Implicit Self-esteem | An uncoscious preferences for people, places and things that resemble ourselves. |
| Attribution | A conclusion about the cause of an observed behavior. |
| Situational attribution | Something outside the person (peer pressure) cause the behavior. |
| Dispositional Attribution | Something inside the person (like personalty or abilities) causes the behavior. |
| Fundamental Attribution | Overestimating the impact of disposition on other peoples behavior. |
| Attitude | Belief plus emotional attachment. |
| Cognitive dissonasse | One thing you believe and another you did which don't match. |
| Self-perception theory | We acquire our attitude by observing our behavior. |
| Impression management theory | People do not really change their attitudes but say they do so their behaviors appear consistent with their attitude. |
| Persuasion | We are persuaded by emotion. |
| The sleeper effect | We forget where we hear something over time. |
| Central | Going directly through the rational mind persuading with evidence and logic. |
| Peripheral | Going around the rational mind and appealing to fears, desires and association. |
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