Unit 10

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

a need or desire that energize behavior and directs it toward a goal

Question 2

Instinct

Answer 2

complex behavior that is patterned throughout a species and is unlearned

Question 3

Drive - Reduction Theory

Answer 3

idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates the organism to satisfy the need

Question 4

Homeostasis

Answer 4

maintenence of a steady internal state

Question 5

Incentive

Answer 5

we are pushed by drive and pulled by ——-

Question 6

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 6

pyramid whose base has physiological need that must be met before moving onto psychological needs

Question 7

Industrial - Organizational Psychology

Answer 7

application of psychology to the workplace

Question 8

Achievement Motivation

Answer 8

desire for significant accomplishment

Question 9

Emotion

Answer 9

response of the whole organism that involves physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience

Question 10

James Lange Theory

Answer 10

the idea that people experience emotion because they perceive their bodies’ physiological responses to external events

Question 11

Cannon Bard Theory

Answer 11

physiological arousal occurs at the same time as emotions

Question 12

Two Factor Theory

Answer 12

emotion is the outcome of physiological arousal

Question 13

Catharsis

Answer 13

alleviating emotion

Question 14

Feel Good, Do Good Phenomenon

Answer 14

when you are in a good mood, you are more likely to do good for others

Question 15

Subjective Well Being

Answer 15

satisfaction with life

Question 16

Adaptation Level Phenomenon

Answer 16

people have a tendency to quickly adapt to new situations until that becomes the norm

Question 17

Behavioral Medicine

Answer 17

field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of knowledge in the biological, behavioral, psychological, and social sciences that are relevant to health and illness

Question 18

Health Psychology

Answer 18

focuses on the medical aspects of psych

Question 19

Stress

Answer 19

process by which we perceive and respond to certain events that we appraise as threatening or challenging

Question 20

General Adaptation Syndrome

Answer 20

a response to stress in three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

Question 21

Type A

Answer 21

agressive, competetive, and impatient person

Question 22

Type B

Answer 22

relaxed person

Question 23

Psychophysiological Illness

Answer 23

having to do with both mind and body

Question 24

Coping

Answer 24

alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods

Question 25

Problem Focused Coping

Answer 25

attempting to alleviate stress by changing the stressor or the way we interact with the stressor

Question 26

Emotion Focused Coping

Answer 26

attempting to alleviate stress by avoiding or ignoring a stressor and attending the emotional needs related to one’s stress reaction

Question 27

Biofeedback

Answer 27

The use of electronic monitoring of a normally automatic bodily function in order to train someone to acquire voluntary control of that function

Question 28

Stressor

Answer 28

something that causes stress