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Psych Unit 7
Motivation, Emotion, Stress, and Health
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What can influence eating habits? | Hunger, socialization, comfort, boredom, cultural, stress |
| Anorexia Nervosa | people who starve themselves to below 85% of their body weight and refuse to eat due to their obsession with their weight |
| Bulimia Nervosa | people who eat large amounts of food in a short period of time and the purge, also obsessed with their weight |
| What are the effects of anorexia? | Hair loss, kidney failure, dry skin, weak bones, period loss/infertility |
| What are the effects of bulimia? | Dental problems , distorted body image, olw self-esteem, metabolic deficiencies |
| Obesity | when people are severely overweight and it becomes threatening to their health, typically caused by unhealthy eating habits |
| James-Lange | Emphasizes physiological determinants of emotion --> You feel your heart racing and then become fearful |
| Cannon Bard | Thalamus sends signals to cortex and autonomic system -->Physiological determinants and emotion responses occur at the same time |
| Schachter's Two Factor | Emotion depends on autonomic arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal |
| What factors CAN predict happiness? | High self-esteem, outgoing personality, close relationships, goals, work, religion, good sleep, and exercise |
| What factors CAN'T predict happiness? | Age, gender, education, parenthood, attractiveness, money** *Money can up to a certain threshold which allows people to meet their basic needs |
| Instinct | a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned |
| Motivation | a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |
| Drive-Reduction Theory | the idea that a physiological need creates drive or aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need |
| Yerson-Dodson Law | the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases, moderate arousal leads to optimal performance |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | a pyramid of human needs, beginning at the with with physiological needs which must be satisfied before more complex needs |
| Arousal Theory | focuses on finding the right level of stimulation |
| Instinct Theory | focuses on genetically predisposed behaviors |
| Affiliation Need | the need to belong and be part of a group |
| Grit | passion and perseverance to pursue a goal |
| Facial Feedback Hypothesis | the tendency of facial muscles to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness |
| General Adaptation Syndrome | the way we typically react to stressors; includes alarm, resistance, and then exahaustion |
| Alarm | activation of sympathetic nervous system |
| Resistance | sudden outpouring of hormones |
| Exhaustion | reserves are depleted and one becomes more susceptible to illness |
| Acute Stressors | come from demands and pressures of the recent past and anticipated demands and pressures of the near future |
| Chronic Stressors | when a person nevers sees a way out of a situation |
| Frustration | a feeling of tension that occurs when our efforts to reach some goal are blocked |
| Pressures | real or perceived serious demands imposed on one person by another individual |
| Approach-approach | when you must choose between 2 desirable outcomes |
| Avoidance-avoidance | when you must choose between 2 unattractive outcomes |
| Approach-avoidance | when one event or goal has both attractive and unattractive features |
| Double approach-avoidance | when confronted with 2 goals both with many attractive and unattractive features |
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