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Ap Psych Ch 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drive | Biologically instigated motivation; usually from a need |
| Motive | Reason or purpose for behavior (often used to describe motivations that are learned, rather than biologically based). |
| Intrinsic Motivation | Desire to engage in an activity for ones own sake. |
| Extrinsic Motivation | Desire to engage in an activity to achieve an external consequence (reward). |
| Instinct/ Fixed-Action patterns | Certain factors are completely determined by innate factors (Genetically based). |
| Need | A biological imbalance (dehydration, etc.) that threatens survival, if the need is left unmet. Creates drives. |
| Homeostasis | The body's tenancy to maintain a biologically balanced condition, especially with regard to nutrients, water, and temperature. |
| Locus Of Control | An individuals sense of where his or her influences originate (internally or externally). |
| Over-justification | The process by which extrinsic rewards can sometimes displace internal motivation. |
| Need for Achievement | A mental state that produces a psychological motive to excel or reach some goal |
| Individualism | Places a high value on individual achievement ans distinction |
| Collectivism | The view that values group loyalty and pride over individual distinction |
| Set Point | Refers to the tenancy of the body to maintain a certain level of body fat and body weight |
| Volumetric | A drop in extracellular body fluid |
| Osmotic Thirst | A drop in intracellular body fluids |
| Stress | A physical and mental response to challenging or threatening situations |
| Stressor | A condition demanding adaptation |
| Acute Stress | A temporary pattern of stressor (limited duration) |
| Chronic Stress | Continual stressful arousal persisting over time |
| Cytokines | Hormone-like chemicals facilitating communication between the brain and immune system |
| Learned helplessness | Pattern of failure to respond to noxious stimuli after an organism learns its responses are ineffective |
| Emotion | a 4-part process that involves physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation,and behavioral expression. |
| Display rules | The permissible ways of displaying emotions in a particular society |
| James-Lange Theory | A stimulus produces a physiological response that in turn produces/ causes an emotion (No response= No reaction). |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | An emotional feeling and a physiological response occur at the same time. |
| Two-factor Theory | Emotion results from the cognitive interpretation of both the physical arousal and the stimulus |
| Cognitive appraisal theory | Theory that individuals consciously decide on an appropriate emotion after the event |
| Opponent-process theory | Theory that emotions have pairs; when one is triggered the other is suppressed |
| Emotional intelligence | Ability to understand and control emotional responses; understood emotions of others too. |
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