AP Psychology Motivation and Emotion Flashcards

4806556435	emotion	a four part process that involves psychological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation, and behavioral expression	0
4806556436	display rules	the permissible ways of displaying emotions in a particular society	1
4806556438	james lange theory	the proposal that an emotion provoking stimulus produces a physcial response that, in turn, produces and emotion	2
4806556439	cannon bard theory	the counter proposal than an emotional feeling and an internal physiological response occur at the same time	3
4806556440	two factor theory (schacter-singer)	the proposal claiming that emotion resluts from the cognitive appraisal of both physical arousal and an emotion provoking stimulus	4
4806556441	cognitive appraisal theory	theory of emotion which theorizes that individuals deicde on an appropriate emotions following the event	5
4806556444	motivation	all the processes involved in starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities	6
4806556445	drive	biologically instigated motivation	7
4806556446	motive	an internal mechanism that selects and directs behavior	8
4806556447	intrinsic motivation	the desire to engage in an activity for its own sake, rather than for some external consequence, such as reward	9
4806556448	extrinsic motivation	the desire to engage in an activity to achieve an external consequence, such as a reward	10
4806556449	conscious motivation	having the desire to engage in an activity and being aware to the desire	11
4806556450	unconscious motivation	having a desire to engage in an activity but being consciously unaware of the desire	12
4806556452	need	in drive theory, it is a biological imbalance that threatens survival if it is left unmet. They produce drives	13
4806556453	homeostasis	the body's tendencey to maintain a biologically balanced condition, especially with regard to nutrients, water, and temperature	14
4806556454	locus of control	an individuals's sense of where his or her life influences originate internally or externally	15
4806556455	hierarchy of needs	in Maslow's theory, the notion that needs occur in priority order, with the biological needs as the most basic	16
4806556456	overjustification	the process by which entrinisic rewards can sometimes displace internal motivation, as when a child recieves money for playing video games	17
4806556458	approach approach conflict	a conflict in which one must choose between two equally attractive options	18
4806556459	approach avoidance conflict	a conflict in which there are both appealing and negative aspects the the decision to be made	19
4806556460	avoidance avoidance conflict	a conflict in which one has to choose between two equally unattractive options	20
4806556462	stress	a physical and mental response to a challenging or threatening situation	21
4806556463	stressor	a stressful stimulus, a condition demanding adaptation	22
4806556464	traumatic stressor	a situation that threatens one's physical activity, arousing feelings of fear, horror, or helplessness	23
4806556465	acute stress	a temporary pattern of stressor activated arousal with distinct onset and limited duration	24
4806556466	chronic stress	continuous stressful arousal persisting over time	25
4806556467	fight or flight response	sequence of internal processes preparing an organism for struggle or escape	26
4806556468	general adaptation syndrome	pattern of general physical responses that take essentially the same form in responding to any serious chronic stress	27
4806556469	alarm reaction	first stage of the GAS during which the body mobilizes its resources to cope with a stressor	28
4806556470	stage of resistance	second stage of the GAS during which the body adapts to and uses resources to cope with a stressor	29
4806556471	stage of exhaustion	third stage of the GAS during which the body depleates its resources in responding to an ongoing stressor	30
4806556472	type a	behavior patternt characterized by intense, angry, competitive, or perfectionalistic responses to challenging situations	31
4806556473	type b	behavior pattern characterized by relaxed, unstressed approach to life	32
4806556474	learned helplessness	pattern of failure to respond to noxious stimuli after an organism learns its responses are ineffective	33
4806556475	bulimia	eating disorder in which a person eats and then purges	34
4806556476	anorexia	eating disorder in which a person does not eat enough	35