Unit 8 Motivation and Emotion

Question 1

Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species

Answer 2

Instinct

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Drive reduction theory

Question 4

A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state

Answer 4

Homeostasis

Question 5

A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior

Answer 5

Incentive

Question 6

The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases

Answer 6

Yerkes-Dodson law

Question 7

Maslows pyramid of human needs

Answer 7

Hierarchy of needs

Question 8

The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissue

Answer 8

Glucose

Question 9

The point at which an individuals “weight thermostat”

Answer 9

Set point

Question 10

The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure

Answer 10

Base metabolic rate

Question 11

The four stages of sexual responding

Answer 11

Sexual response cycle

Question 12

A resting period after orgasm

Answer 12

Refractory period

Question 13

A problem that consistently impairs sexual aeousal or functioning

Answer 13

Sexual dysfunction

Question 14

Sex hormones such as estradiol

Answer 14

Estrogens

Question 15

The most important of the male hormones

Answer 15

Testosterone

Question 16

A response of the whole organism

Answer 16

Emotion

Question 17

The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli

Answer 17

James Lange theory

Question 18

The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus sinulataneoualy triggers

Answer 18

Cannon bard theory

Question 19

The schachter singer theory that to experience emotion one must

Answer 19

Two factor theory

Question 20

The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear and or happiness

Answer 20

Facial feedback effect

Question 21

A subfield of psychology that provides Psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine

Answer 21

Health psychology

Question 22

The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events

Answer 22

Stress

Question 23

Selyes concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases

Answer 23

General adaptation syndrome

Question 24

Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others

Answer 24

Tend and befriend response

Question 25

Literally “mind body” illness

Answer 25

Psychophysiological illness

Question 26

The study of how physiological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health

Answer 26

Psychoneuroimmunokogy

Question 27

The two types of white blood cells that’s are part of the body’s immune system

Answer 27

Lymphocytes

Question 28

The clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle

Answer 28

Coronary heart disease

Question 29

Friedman and Rosenmans term for competitive

Answer 29

Type A

Question 30

Friedman and rosenmans term for easygoing relaxed people

Answer 30

Type b