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| 3535205217 | James-Lange Theory | Stimulus--> physical arousal--> label emotional experience | 0 | |
| 3535212576 | Cannon-Bard theory | Stimulus--> arousal OR --> emotion | 1 | |
| 3535223502 | Schachter Two-factor theory | Stimulus--> physical arousal--> cognitive thinking--> emotion | 2 | |
| 3535236764 | Lazarus' Cognitive Appraisal Theory | Event--> cognitive appraisal--> physiological response--> emotion | 3 | |
| 3535242766 | Spillover Effect | when one's experience of one emotion affects perceptions/reactions to other events | 4 | |
| 3535255170 | Zajonc's low/high road to emotion | -Some emotions take the "low road" that bypass the cortex & go straight to the amygdala -Other emotions take the "high road" of the cortex for analysis | 5 | |
| 3535272129 | Yerkes-Dodson law | the idea that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal to a point, but then decreases if arousal increases past that point, creating U-shaped curve | 6 | |
| 3535294995 | Automatic NS & emotions | mobilizes your body for action, directing adrenal glands to release stress hormones | 7 | |
| 3535307832 | Physiological similarities & differences among emotions | Similarities= Fear/anger/sexual aroused--> different emotions do not have sharply distinct biological signatures-->broad emotional portfolio Differences=stimulate different muscles, differ in brain circuits. Positive emotions occur on left brain | 8 | |
| 3535334059 | Polygraph | machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion. Not accurate due to deception | 9 | |
| 3535352152 | Detecting emotion | Anger and threats are easily detectable emotions | 10 | |
| 3535371407 | gender and emotions | women possess greater emotional awareness | 11 | |
| 3535382053 | Culture & emotional expression | gestures vary among cultures, facial expressions are viewed the same. musical emotion stays the same. Each culture differs in how much emotion they show | 12 | |
| 3535397492 | Facial feedback hypothesis | tendency of facial muscles trigger corresponding feelings such as fear, anger, or happiness | 13 | |
| 3535408396 | Elkman's basic emotions | disgust, anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise | 14 | |
| 3535415445 | Catharsis & anger | emotional release, relieves aggressive urges | 15 | |
| 3535422718 | Feel-good do-good phenomenon | people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood | 16 | |
| 3535431078 | Adaption-level phenomenon | tendency to form judgments relative to a "neutral" level--> level of income, intensity of emotion | 17 | |
| 3535448703 | Relative deprivation | perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself | 18 | |
| 3535455855 | Stressor | stimulus that causes stress | 19 | |
| 3535464410 | General Adaptation syndrome (GAS) | 3 phases of body's response to stress 1. Alarm 2. resistance 3. Exhaustion | 20 | |
| 3535477834 | Psychophysiological illnesses | "mind-body" illness--> stress-related physical illness such as hypertension or headaches | 21 | |
| 3535505832 | Instinct theory | focuses on generally predisposed behaviors | 22 | |
| 3535512425 | Drive-reduction theory | focuses on how our inner pushes and external pulls interact | 23 | |
| 3535526473 | Optimum arousal theory | focuses on finding the right level of stimulation | 24 | |
| 3535534759 | Maslow's hierarchy of needs | describes how some of our needs take priority over others | 25 | |
| 3535558035 | Cognitive (Incentive) theory | differences in behavior from one person to another or from one situation to another can be traced to the incentives available and the value a person places on those incentives at the time | 26 | |
| 3535567383 | Intrinsic motivation | motivated for internal pleasure, self-enjoyment | 27 | |
| 3535578266 | Extrinsic motivation | motivated for external rewards | 28 | |
| 3535581198 | Overjustification effect | less likely that a task will be done intrinsically when an extrinsic reward is no longer given | 29 | |
| 3535596991 | Management theory (X&Y) | Theory X=managers believe that employees will work only if rewarded with benefits or threatened with punishment(extrinsically motivated) Theory Y=managers believe that employees are internally motivated to do good work and policies should encourage this internal motive(intrinsically motivated) | 30 | |
| 3535634180 | Approach-approach conflict | two desirable but conflicting choices | 31 | |
| 3535641807 | Approach-avoidance conflict | one choice has both attractive & unattractive features | 32 | |
| 3535647068 | Avoidance-avoidance conflict | choosing between two undesirable choices | 33 | |
| 3535659369 | Multiple approach-avoidance conflict | choosing between one option that has positives and negatives, and another that has other positive & negative features | 34 | |
| 3535672628 | Insulin | hormone secreted by pancreas; controls blood glucose | 35 | |
| 3535681464 | Leptin, orexin, ghrelin, PYY | leptin=protein secreted by fat cells; when abundant, causes brain to increase metabolism and decrease hunger Orexin=hunger-triggering hormone secreted by hypothalamus Ghrelin=hormone secreted by empty stomach; sends "I'm hungry signals to the brain. PYY=digestive track hormones;sends "I'm not hungry" signals to the brain | 36 | |
| 3535720205 | Lateral Hypothalamus | tells us we are hungry, causes secretion of ghrelin | 37 | |
| 3535730465 | Ventromedial hypothalamus | tells us we are full, causes secretion of PYY | 38 | |
| 3535739374 | Set point theory | stable weight to which your body wants to return | 39 | |
| 3535753307 | Basic metabolic rate | rate of energy expenditure for maintaining basic body functions when body is at rest | 40 | |
| 3535763764 | Ecology of eating | -our environments influence our eating -Variety of foods 4-3 | 41 | |
| 3535769153 | Unit bias | size of food portions affect how much we eat | 42 | |
| 3535778420 | Anorexia nervosa | normal weight, obsessed with losing weight, diet becomes significantly underweight | 43 | |
| 3535784548 | Bulimia nervosa | episodes of binging vs episodes of purging | 44 | |
| 3535795934 | Binge-eating disorder | significant binge-eating episodes with large amounts of food followed by remorse/guilt. NOT purging, fasting, exercise | 45 | |
| 3535816957 | Biopsychosocial model & eating behavior | biological influences=hypothalamic centers, appetite, hormones, stomach pangs, set point, attraction to tastes Psychological influences=sight/smell of food, variety of foods, time elapsed since last food, stress/mood, food unit size Social-cultural influences=culturally learned taste preferences, responses to cultural preferences for appearance | 46 | |
| 3535869818 | Psychoanalysis | set of psychological and psychotherapeutic theories and associated techniques, created by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud | 47 | |
| 3535880430 | Preconscious mind | memories, stored knowledge | 48 | |
| 3535893773 | Unconscious mind | needs, urges, fears, wishes, desires, | 49 | |
| 3535903734 | Conscious mind | thoughts & perceptions | 50 | |
| 3535907915 | Freudian slip | an unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings. | 51 | |
| 3535915142 | Psychosexual stages | oral-mouth Anal-bowl/bladder, coping with control Phallic-genitals, oedipus/electra complexes Latent-dormant sexual feelings Genital-maturation of sexual interests | 52 | |
| 3535937983 | Fixation | lingering focus of pleasure, seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved | 53 | |
| 3535947143 | Identification | progress by which children incorporate their parents' values into their developing super egos | 54 | |
| 3535963177 | Id | unconscious energy, seeking of immediate gratification of instinctive needs or wants | 55 | |
| 3535979032 | Ego | mostly conscious; makes peace between Id and superego | 56 | |
| 3535985184 | Superego | internalized ideals | 57 | |
| 3535993663 | Regression | returning to an earlier, more comforting form of behavior | 58 | |
| 3535997310 | repression | pushing thoughts out of conscious awareness | 59 | |
| 3536003610 | Rationalization | unconsciously generate self-justifying explanations instead of real reasons for action or event | 60 | |
| 3536014079 | Reaction formation | expressing the opposite of how one truly feels, often exaggeratedly | 61 | |
| 3536019561 | Displacement | redirecting one's impulses toward another person or object | 62 | |
| 3536025883 | Projection | disguising threatening impulses by attributing them to others--> hypocrites | 63 | |
| 3536035374 | Sublimation | channeling one's impulses toward a different, more positive & acceptable goal or behavior | 64 | |
| 3536043406 | Denial | rejecting the ego-threatening truth | 65 | |
| 3536052803 | Alfred Adler & inferiority complex | childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation | 66 | |
| 3536065387 | Karen Horney | disagreed with freud over childhood anxiety, yes that childhood anxiety triggered our desire for love/security, she balances freuds masculine psychology | 67 | |
| 3536119438 | Collective unconscious | concept of a shared, inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species history | 68 | |
| 3536135480 | Objective tests | tests with right or wrong answers | 69 | |
| 3536141189 | Subjective tests | personality tests, provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics | 70 | |
| 3536160860 | Thematic Apperception test (TAT) | projection test in which peole express their inner feelings/interests thru the stories they made up about ambiguous scenes | 71 | |
| 3536175659 | Rorschach Inkblot test | most widely used projective test, set of 10 inkblots, seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots | 72 | |
| 3536192196 | Terror management theory | theory of death-related anxiety: explores people's emotional/behavioral responses to remind of their impending death | 73 | |
| 3536214126 | Gordon Allport | pioneer of research in personality, helped develop "trait" theory | 74 | |
| 3536232044 | Myers-Briggs Type indicator (MBTI) | test that sorts people from personality types | 75 | |
| 3538258761 | Hans Eysenck's dimensions | believed that we can reduce many of our individual variations to 2 or 3 dimensions-->extraversion/intraversion and emotional stability/instability | 76 | |
| 3538325571 | Big Five personality Factors (C.A.N.O.E.) | Conscientious-organized, careful, disciplined Agreeableness-soft-hearted, trusting, helpful Neuroticism- anxious, insecure, self-pitying Openness- imaginative, prefers variety, independent Extraversion- sociable, fun-loving, affectionate | 77 | |
| 3538366387 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personal Inventory (MMPI) | a test consisting of hundreds of true-false questions, used as a diagnostic tool | 78 | |
| 3538385530 | Person-situation controversy | look for genuine personality traits that persist overtime and across situations | 79 | |
| 3538411495 | Carl Rogers's person centered perspective | must meet 3 conditions for a growth-promoting climate 1. Genuiness 2. Acceptance 3. Empathy | 80 | |
| 3538428239 | Unconditional positive regard | we feel love/acceptance despite flaws and mistakes | 81 | |
| 3538440448 | Self Concept | How you see yourself | 82 | |
| 3538454678 | Albert Bandura & social cognitive perspective | personality is interaction of our personal factors, environment, learn behaviors through conditioning/observation. What we THINK about our situation affects our behavior | 83 | |
| 3538483412 | Reciprocal Determinism | our personality influences our choices, we influence our environments and our environments influence us | 84 | |
| 3538505774 | External v. Internal locus of control | external--> others control destiny Internal--> you control your own destiny | 85 | |
| 3538512776 | Learned helplessness | no matter how hard I try, I will never improve | 86 | |
| 3538519744 | Positive Psychology | study of strengths than enable us to thrive | 87 | |
| 3538532469 | Spotlight effect | the phenomenon in which people tend to believe they are noticed more than they really are. | 88 | |
| 3538546302 | Self Esteem | how you feel about yourself, reflects attitudes | 89 | |
| 3538562497 | Individualism | Independent, defines individuals behaviors and attitudes | 90 | |
| 3538574626 | Collectivism | Identity from belonging | 91 | |
| 3538579292 | Type A vs. Type B | Type A--> focused, competitive, intense, cold Type B--> relaxed, laid back, warm | 92 |
