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| 635884799 | Emotion | A four-part process that involves physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation, and behavioral expression -- all of which interact, rather than occurring in a linear sequence. Emotions help organisms deal with important events. | |
| 635884800 | Display Rules | The permissible ways of displaying emotions in a particular society. | |
| 635884801 | Lateralization of Emotion | Different influences of the two brain hemisphere on various emotions. The left hemisphere apparently influences positive emotions, and the right hemisphere influences negative emotions. | |
| 635884802 | James-Lange Theory | The proposal that an emotion-provoking stimulus produces a physical response that, in turn, produces an emotion. | |
| 635884803 | Cannon-Bard Theory | The counter-proposal that an emotional feeling and an internal physiological response occur at the same time: one is not the cause of the other. Both were believed to be the result of cognition appraisal of the situation. | |
| 635884804 | Two-Factor Theory | The proposal claiming that emotion results from the cognition appraisal of both physical arousal (Factor 1) and an emotion-provoking stimulus (Factor 2). | |
| 635884805 | Cognition Appraisal Theory | Theory of emotion which theorizes that individuals decide on an appropriate emotion following the event. | |
| 635884806 | Opponent-Process Theory | Theory of emotion which theorizes that emotions have pairs. When one is triggered, the other is suppressed. | |
| 635884807 | Inverted U Function | Describes the relationship between arousal and performance. Both low and high levels of arousal produce lower performance than does a moderate level of arousal. | |
| 635884808 | Sensation Seekers | In Zuckerman's theory, individuals who have a biological need for higher level of stimulation than do other people. | |
| 635884809 | Emotional Intelligence | The ability to understand and control emotional responses. | |
| 635884810 | Polygraph | A device that records or graphs many ("poly") measures of physical arousal, such as heart rate, breathing, perspiration, and blood pressure. A polygraph is often called a "lie detector," even though it is really an arousal detector. | |
| 635884811 | Motivation | All the processes involved in starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities. | |
| 635884812 | Drive | Biologically instigated motivation. | |
| 635884813 | Motive | An internal mechanism that selects and directs behavior. | |
| 635884814 | Intrinsic Motivation | The desires to engage in an activity for its own sake, rather than for some external consequence, such as a reward. | |
| 635884815 | Extrinsic Motivation | The desires to engage in an activity to receive an external consequence, such an as award.` | |
| 635884816 | Conscious Motivation | Having the desire to engage in an activity while being aware of the desire. | |
| 635884817 | Unconscious Motivation | Having a desire to engage in an activity but being unaware of the desire. Freud's psychoanalytic theory emphasized unconscious motivation. | |
| 635884818 | Instinct Theory | The now-outmoded view that certain behaviors are completely determined by innate factors. The instinct theory was flawed because it overlooked the effects of learning and because it employed instincts merely as labels, rather than as explanations for behavior. | |
| 635884819 | Fixed-Action Patterns | Genetically based behaviors, seen across a species, that can be set off by a specific stimulus. | |
| 635884820 | Need | In drive theory, a biological imbalance (such as dehydration) that threatens survival if left unmet. Believed to produce drives. | |
| 635884821 | Homeostasis | The body's tendency to maintain a biologically balanced condition, especially with regards to nutrients, water, and temperature. | |
| 635884822 | Locus of Control | An individual's sense of where his or her life influences originate - internally or externally. | |
| 635884823 | Hierarchy of Needs | In Maslow's theory, the notion that needs occur in priority order, with the biological needs as the most basic. | |
| 635884824 | Overjustification | The process by which extrinsic (external) rewards can sometimes displace internal motivation, as when a child receives money for playing video games. | |
| 635884825 | Need for Achievement | In Murray and McClelland's theory, a mental state that produces a psychological motive to excel or to reach some goal. | |
| 635884826 | Individualism | The view, common in the Euro-American world, that places a high value on individual achievement and distinction. | |
| 635884827 | Collectivism | The view, common in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, that values group loyalty and pride over individual distinction. | |
| 635884828 | Set Point | Refers to the tendency of the body to maintain a certain level of body fat and body weight. | |
| 635884829 | Volumetric Thirst | A drop in extracellular fluid levels. | |
| 635884830 | Osmotic Thirst | A drop in intracellular fluid levels. | |
| 635884831 | Sexual Response Cycle | The four-stage sequence of arousal, plateau, orgasm, and resolution occurring in both men and women. | |
| 635884832 | Sexual Scripts | Socially learned ways of responding in sexual situations. | |
| 635884833 | Approach-Approach Conflict | A conflict in which one must choose between two equally attractive options. | |
| 635884834 | Approach-Avoidance Conflict | A conflict in which there are both appealing and negative aspects to the decision to be made. | |
| 635884835 | Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict | A conflict in which one has to choose between two equally unattractive options. | |
| 635884836 | Multiple Approach-Avoidance Conflict | A conflict in which one must choose between options that have both many attractive and many negative aspects. | |
| 635884837 | Sexual Orientation | One's erotic attraction towards members of the same sex, the opposite sex, or both sexes. | |
| 635884838 | Stress | A physical and mental response to a challenging and/or threatening situation. | |
| 635884839 | Stressor | A stressful stimulus, a condition demanding adaptation. | |
| 635884840 | Traumatic Stressor | A situation that threatens one's physical safety, arousing feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness. | |
| 635884841 | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | Delayed stress reaction in which an individual involuntarily re-experiences emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of past trauma. | |
| 635884842 | Acute Stress | A temporary pattern of stressor-activated arousal with a distinct onset and limited duration. | |
| 635884843 | Chronic Stress | Continuous stressful arousal persisting over time. | |
| 635884844 | Fight-or-Flight Response | Sequence of internal processes preparing an organism for struggle or escape. | |
| 635884845 | General Adaptation Syndrome | Pattern of general physical responses that take essentially the same form in responding to any serious chronic stressor. | |
| 635884846 | Alarm Reaction | First stage of the GAS, during which the body mobilizes its resources to cope with a stressor. | |
| 635884847 | Stage of Resistance | Second stage of the GAS, during which the body adapts to and uses resources to cope with a stressor. | |
| 635884848 | State of Exhaustion | Third stage of the GAS, during which the body depletes its resources in responding to an ongoing stressor. | |
| 635884849 | Tend-and-Befriend Model | Stress response model proposing that females are biologically predisposed to respond to threat by nurturing and protecting offspring and seeking social support. | |
| 635884850 | Immune System | Bodily organs and responses that protect the body from foreign substances and threats. | |
| 635884851 | Psychoneuroimmunology | Multidisciplinary field that studies the influence of mental states on the immune system. | |
| 635884852 | Cytokines | Hormone-like chemicals facilitating communication between brain and immune system. | |
| 635884853 | Type A | Behavior pattern characterized by intense, angry, competitive, or perfectionistic response to challenging situations. | |
| 635884854 | Type B | Behavior pattern characterized by relaxed, unstressed approach to life. | |
| 635884855 | Learned Helplessness | Pattern of failure to respond to noxious stimuli after an organism learns its responses are ineffective. | |
| 635884856 | Flow | In Csikszentmihali's theory, an intense focus on an activity, accompanied by increased creativity and near-ecstatic feelings. |
