Unit 3 Motivation And Emotion & Unit 4 Human Development Study Questions Flashcards
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What term refers to the presence one hold for emotional and sexual relationships with persons of the opposite or same sex or both?
Sexual orientation
According to research, what is one of the well known reasons that increases in income don’t necessarily bring increases in well being?
Hedonic Adaption
What approx. percentage of the Canadian population is categorized as obese?
Over 20 percent
Which compost of emotion includes automatic arousal?
Physiological component
Which areas of the brain are activated when someone has been rejected or ostracized?
Areas associated it’s pain perceptions
The thalamus simultaneously transmits information capable of eliciting emotions to 2 areas of the brain. What are they?
- Amygdala
- Cerebral Cortex
According to Baumeitster and Leary(1995), human beings have a pervasive need to form and maintain at least a minimum of lasting, positive and significant interpersonal relationships. What do they call this hypothesis?
Belongingness bypothesis
List the Factors That Do not Predict Happiness
- Money
- Age
- Intellegenge (higher IQ)
- Attractiveness
- Parenthood
List the Factors that Do Bring Happiness
- Health
- Social Activity
- Religion
- Relationship Satisfaction
- Work
- Genetics and personality
What plays a particularly central role in in conditions fear?
Amygdala
Which approach to explaining the origins of homosexuality has received the most empirical support?
Biological
Which area of the brain has neurons that are sensitive to hunger signals as well as neurons that are sensitive to satiety signals?
Hypothalamus
What is this statement an example of : “we need to control internet porn because it currently is unregulated ?
Circular reasoning
The premise and conclusion are simply restatement of one another
What is this statement an example of: we need to regulate cyber porn because research has shown that most date rappers go unreported ?
Irrelevant reasons
Cannot provide an argument in less they are relevant to the conclusion
What is this statement an example of: if we don’t ban cyberporn, the next thing you know, grade school children will be watching smut all day long in their school libraries ?
Slipper slope
If you allow X to happen, things will spin out of control and far worse things will happen/
What is this statement an example an example of: we wouldn’t tolerate child molestation, so we should permit cyber porn?
Weak analogies
Asserts that 2 concepts or events are similarities in some way.
What is this statement an example of: we can ban cyber porn, or we can hasten the moral decay of modern society?
False dichotomy
Created an either or choice between 2 outcomes
Do people who admit same sex attraction always identify as being gay?
Many people admits same sex attraction do not identify as either gay or bisexual
Malcolm is reading a mystery novel and as the action builds, he find he is breathing more quirky that’s usual and he feels like his stomach is tied in knots. What component does this example illustrate?
Physiological component in Malcolm’s emotion experience
Craig has a desire to excel. What would be said of Craig ?
He is high in achievement motivation
General bodily arousal contributes to emotion, but ones interpretation of what is happening gives specific emotion. Which emotion theories made this statement?
Stanley Schachter
2 factor emotion theory
As Erica watched televised drawing of lottery numbers, she realized she had the winning ticket. Which theory would be supported if her hearts starts to race at the same instant that she feels euphoria ?
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
What did Alfred Kinsey suggest about homosexuality and heterosexually?
They are end points on a continuum.
You take an antihistamine, but you don’t realize that the medicine will also increase your overall level of autonomic arousal. 30 mins later you are introduce to someone. If you incorrectly attributes a your increased arousal as attraction which theory would be supported by this?
Schachter’s Two factor theory of emotion
