Motivation, social psychology, psychological disorders
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| 783940561 | Motivation | Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior | |
| 783940562 | Biological motivation | Need for food, water, sex, temperature. _______ driven motivation | |
| 783940563 | Emotional motivation | Anger, fear, love drive it. | |
| 783940564 | Cognitive motivation | Perception of the world, beliefs, expectations about abilities. | |
| 783940565 | Social motivation | Reactions of what other people would think | |
| 783940566 | Instinct theory | Genetically pre-determined. Innate. Confronted with stimulus and person behaves in certain way automatically. | |
| 783940567 | Drive theory | State of tension when a need is not met. | |
| 783940568 | Arousal theory | Optimal level of ________ that must be increased or decreased by our actions. | |
| 783940569 | Incentive theory | external reward. Anticipate desirable outcome. | |
| 783940570 | Humanistic theory | Maslow's hierarchy of needs | |
| 783940571 | Levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs | Physiological, safety, love/belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization. | |
| 783940572 | Deficiency motivation | Cannot grow without one level being filled. | |
| 783940573 | Growth motivated | Can still grow without something in a level becoming filled. | |
| 783940574 | McClelland's theory | Need for achievement. | |
| 783940575 | Intrinsic-motivated | Motivated for self. Can produce "flow" | |
| 783940576 | Extrinsic-motivated | Motivated for others. | |
| 783940577 | Need for affiliation | Need for social contact and relationships | |
| 783940578 | Need for achievement | Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation | |
| 783940579 | Need for power | Having control or status over other people | |
| 783940580 | Dweck's self theory | Achievement is linked to personality factors | |
| 783940581 | Self theory of motivation | Key is idea of self. view of self as an adult is what we are capable and what we believe we are. | |
| 783940582 | Locus of control | How in control you are. Internal versus external | |
| 783940583 | Internal locus of control | You are in control. | |
| 783940584 | External locus of control | All other thinks are in control of you. | |
| 783940585 | Areas in the hypothalamus that are the "eat center" for hunger | Lateral hypothalamus, ventral-mediated hypothalamus, and paraventricular nucleus. | |
| 783940586 | Lateral hypothalamus | Start eating center. | |
| 783940587 | Ventral-mediated hypothalamus | Stop eating center. | |
| 783940588 | Paraventricular nucleus | Part of hypothalamus. Neurons create different hungers. One for carbs, salt, etc. | |
| 783940589 | Insulin | Used for diabetics since they do not have it. when glucose gets too high this is released and provides signal to stop eating. | |
| 783940590 | Leptin | Produce signal that satisfied. If don't have this a person will overeat. | |
| 783940591 | Set point | Stable weight or homeostasis. | |
| 783940592 | Obesity | over 2/3 of adults in U.S. have this. | |
| 783940593 | Anorexia nervosa | Refuses to maintain body weight at or above minimum normal weight. Intense fear of gaining weight. Disturbance in body image. | |
| 783940594 | Comorbility | Loss of control. More than one disorder. | |
| 783940595 | Bulimia nervosa | Binge eating then purging food. | |
| 783940596 | Social psychology | Study of individual and how they change because of others. | |
| 783940597 | Social influence | Change in behavior caused by somebody else. Intentionally or unintentionally. Conformity, compliance, and obedience. | |
| 783940598 | Conformity | Changing how you are to be more like others | |
| 783940599 | Characteristic of group | More attractive the group, more likely person will conform. | |
| 783940600 | Situation | Conformity is more likely when public. | |
| 783940601 | Kind of task | People working on ambiguous tasks are more likely to conform. More likely to conform on opinions not facts. | |
| 783940602 | Unanimity of group | Groups that unanimously support position show more influence, but when even one person has different opinion it can change everybody. | |
| 783940603 | Compliance | Doing something because somebody asks you to and you choose to do it. | |
| 783940604 | Foot-in-the-door | Salesmen. Once you accept small request it is more likely to comply to large request later. | |
| 783940605 | Door-in-the-face | Ask for something large, get refused, then ask for something smaller and the person will usually accept. | |
| 783940606 | Thats-not-all | Offer at a price then immedietly sweeten the deal. | |
| 783940607 | Not-so-free (Norm of reciprocity) | We treat people like they treat us. If somebody gives us a free sample we feel compelled to give them something. | |
| 783940608 | Obedience | Order from somebody you perceive from an authority figure. You believe you have no chance to refuse. | |
| 783940609 | Social facilitation | Facilitation of a dominant response. May not always be good. Good for learned tasks, bad for unlearned or complex tests. | |
| 783940610 | Social loafing | When someone doesn't do something because there are other people there. | |
| 783940611 | Diffusion of responsibility | Lessens individual responsibility since you are in a group. | |
| 783940612 | Deindividuation | Loss of self-awareness or self-restraint in a group. | |
| 783940613 | Attitude | Everyday we form or use attitudes. Cannot predict behavior because most attitudes are too general | |
| 783940614 | Cognitive attitude | Metal beliefs. | |
| 783940615 | Affective attitude | Emotional | |
| 783940616 | Behavioral attitude | Action you output. | |
| 783940617 | Direct instruction | People tell you what to think | |
| 783940618 | Operant conditioning of an attitude | If you act on an attitude and it is accepted it is more likely to become permanent. | |
| 783940619 | Classical conditioning of an attitude | When there are positive associations paired with something to change an attitude. | |
| 783940620 | Social learning/observation of attitude | Change attitude via modeling of others | |
| 783940621 | Attitude change | Can be achieved by persuasion | |
| 783940622 | ELM (elaboration likelihood model) | Model for attitude change varing degrees in which we would meaningfully process a message. | |
| 783940623 | Sleeper effect | Knowledge of the source goes away after repeating message enough. | |
| 783940624 | Cognitive Dissonance | Changing what is believed in because a situation changes. State of tension to resolve. | |
| 783940625 | Self-perception theory | Unsure of attitude towards something, look to others for cues on behavior. | |
| 783940626 | Social categorization | In groups and out groups. Define world in these categories from gender and race to religion and ethnicity | |
| 783940627 | Central traits | Pull something and build up from that thing. Can change a persons mind. | |
| 783940628 | Implicit personality theory | The personality of someone based on the central trait we identify with | |
| 783940629 | Attribution | Attribute something based on internal or external things | |
| 783940630 | Internal attribution | About the other person | |
| 783940631 | External attribution | About the situation | |
| 783940632 | Fundamental attribution error | We go internal about a person | |
| 783940633 | Spotlight effect | When people assume that their behavior is more amazing than it really is. Thinks everything is about them. | |
| 783940634 | Self-serving bias | Attribute personal success to personal factors. Attribute failure to external factors | |
| 783940635 | Just world hypothesis | Assume the world is just and people get what they deserve. | |
| 783940636 | Prejudice | Prejudgement. Not factually based. | |
| 783940637 | Affective prejudice | Emotional component, what people like or dislike | |
| 783940638 | Cognitive prejudice | Mental, what people believe to be true. | |
| 783940639 | Behavioral prejudice | Act toward group of individuals of a group | |
| 783940640 | Discrimination | Action or behavior. Immediate reaction towards one or another. | |
| 783940641 | Personal or individual discrimination | Unequal treatment of a person because of their perceived membership in a group. | |
| 783940642 | Legal discrimination | Unequal treatment that is upheld by law. | |
| 783940643 | Institutional discrimination | Unequal treatment that is entrenched in the culture. Part of basic social institution. | |
| 783940644 | Stereotyping | Type of discrimination | |
| 783940645 | Abnormal factors | Infrequency, personal suffering, norm violation, and behavior in a context with a practical approach. | |
| 783940646 | Supernatural | Something inside of a person. Spirit, possession. | |
| 783940647 | Biological factors | Some kind of physical illness or imbalance. Can be diagnosed, treated or even cured. | |
| 783940648 | Psychological processes | Physical disorders caused by psychological stress | |
| 783940649 | Sociocultural context | Explaining disorders within society context | |
| 783940650 | Diathesis-stress | Biological predisposition with significant stress. | |
| 783940651 | Classification of disorders | Diagnostic statistics manual (DSM) of mental disorders | |
| 783940652 | 5 major axis to attempt to treat the whole patient | Major mental disorders, personality disorders and mental retardation, relevant medical issues, psychosocial issues, level of functioning. | |
| 783940653 | Phobia | Fear reaction or anxiety to something. Person knows its irrational and they cope through avoidance | |
| 783940654 | Simple phobia | Fear reaction to object or situation | |
| 783940655 | Social phobia | Phobic response that invites public scrutiny | |
| 783940656 | Generalized anxiety disorder | Free-floating gnawing undercurrent of anxiety. | |
| 783940657 | Panic disorder | Intense frequent rushes of anxiety | |
| 783940658 | Obsessive compulsive disorder | Anxiety reaction. Thoughts that are constant and doing a ritual to get rid of anxiety. | |
| 783940659 | Major depressive disorder | About 17% of population has it. Lasting weeks to months in length. Overwhelming sadness, loss of interest. | |
| 783940660 | Dysthymic disorder | Longer period of depression, less severe. | |
| 783940661 | Bipolar disorder | Extremes. Low of depression or high of mania. Mania is euphoric high optimistic. | |
| 783940662 | Biological cause of mood disorder | Run in family. Neurotransmitter and chemical imbalance. | |
| 783940663 | Psychologically caused mood disorder | Takes back to memory or loss | |
| 783940664 | Cognitive caused mood disorder | Learn the behavior, develop habit | |
| 783940665 | Schizophrenia | Split mind not split personality. Disorder of thinking of perceptions, emotions, behavior. Impairs daily function. | |
| 783940666 | Neologism | New word, only has meaning to them. | |
| 783940667 | Word salad | Jumbled up words | |
| 783940668 | Delusions of persecution | False belief of people treating them unfairly | |
| 783940669 | Delusions of reference | False belief of something talking about you | |
| 783940670 | Delusions of grandeur | False belief that the person is better than they are. | |
| 783940671 | Hallucinations | False perceptions, usually auditory sometimes visual | |
| 783940672 | Biological cause of schizophrenia | Runs in families | |
| 783940673 | Psychological cause of schizophrenia | Unsure. Diathesis-stress is best guess. | |
| 783940674 | Treatment of psychological disorder | Main treatment was imprisonment until late 1900's. | |
| 783940675 | Psychoanalysis | Free association to reveal unconscious process. Dream analysis. | |
| 783940676 | Humanistic therapy | Focuses on individual. Client-centered therapy. Create safe place for client. | |
| 783940677 | Behavior therapy | Systematic de-sensitisation to learn new associations. | |
| 783940678 | Cognitive therapy | When you are trying to change the way a client thinks | |
| 783940679 | Biological therapy | Drugs. Psychosugery. Lobotomy. Electrocompulsive therapy. | |
| 783940680 | Electrocompulsive therapy | Put electricity in brain, they have seizure, changes how brainwaves function. |
