Unit 7 Motivation, Emotion, and Personality Flashcards

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A need or desire to change behavior

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Motivation

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2
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Unlearned patterns of behaviors that humans and animals engage, without thinking, evolutionary

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Instinct

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3
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Promised reward that will motivate us

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Incentive

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4
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Motivation from within (inside); Interested in learning

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Intrinsic Motivation

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5
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Motivation from outside (external); college credit

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Extrinsic Motivation

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6
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Lose intrinsic b/c of extrinsic (doing more for reward than interest)

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Overjustification Effect

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7
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Belief in your own success

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Self-Efficacy

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8
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Motivated to be successful

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Achievement Motivation

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9
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Motivated to belong in the group

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Affiliation Motivation

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10
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Fill the need to avoid discomfort

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Drive Reduction Theory

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11
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Alertness, wakefulness

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Arousal

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12
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Appropriate levels of arousal; not too easy and not too hard

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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13
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Our needs; being best version of yourself

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Marlow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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14
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Motivated to eat to return homeostasis

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Hunger Motivation

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15
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“Normal” body weight for an individual that stays constant; less impact on weight

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Set Point Theory

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16
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Feel hungry; Lat makes you fat

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Lateral Hypothalamus

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17
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Feel full

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Ventromedial Hypothalamus

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18
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Calories in = calories used for energy
Too few = Lathargic
Too much = Antsy

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Basal Metabolic Rate

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19
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% of a person’s body fat

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Body Mass Index (BMI)

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20
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Normal human interest in sexual activities

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Sexual Motivation

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21
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4 stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson; 1. Excitement, 2. Plateau, 3. Orgasm, 4. Resolution

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Sexual Response Cycle

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22
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Motivation to belong

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Social Motivation

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23
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Pushing us from isolation; not wanting to be isolated

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Social Exclusion

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24
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Pioneering sex researcher, gained his data mostly through interviews

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Alfred Kinsey

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Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow
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Internal body balance
Homeostasis
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Something that must be filled
Need
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Food, water, breathing, etc.
Primary Drive
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Learned, extrinsic; support, kind words
Secondary Drive
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1. Body response > 2. Emotion
James Lange
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Response + Emotion
Cannon Bard
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1. Response + cognitive label > 2. Emotion
Schachter Two Factor
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Universal facial expressions = believed to be from nature (genes)
Paul Ekman
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Cultural facial/expresses emotions
Carol Izard
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Your facial expressions change your emotional state
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
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Culturally expressed emotions; good in some countries, not in others
Display Rule
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How we perceive/respond to something threatening
Stress
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Something that causes stress
Stressor
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Bad stress
Distress
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Good stress
Eustress
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General Adaptation Syndrome; Hans Seyle
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
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Choosing between 2 good things
Approach-Approach
43
Choosing between 2 bad things
Avoidance-Avoidance
44
Choosing whether or not to do something that is both good and bad
Approach-Avoidance
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Traumatic event (Immediate reaction); not PTSD
Acute Stress Disorder
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Perfectionist, impatient, goes crazy when stressed
Type A
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Easygoing, relaxed, lazy when dealing with stress
Type B
48
Individual's unique pattern on thoughts, feelings, behaviors; fundamental traits
Personality
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Collective Consciousness, Frued's BFF
Carl Jung
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Sick, no social rules, inferiority and compensation, birth order
Alfred Adler
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Anxiety, Neurotic Trends, Womb envy
Karen Horney
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Person centered, humanistic Psychology; we're inherently motivated to achieve positive functioning
Carl Rogers
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Observation, shaping behaviors
Albert Bandura
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Used 18,000 words to describe personality
Oddbert and Allport
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3 personality dimensions
Hans Eysenck
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Mouth is center of pleasure Too early: unconscious biting Too late: over-dependence
Oral stage
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Expulsion of waste is pleasure Early: excessive order Late: Wasteful, disorder
Anal Stage
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Oediupus and Electra; insecure, show off, fear of rejection
Phallic stage
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Sexual urges are dormant; same sex peers
Latency stage
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Opposite sex source of pleasure; all behaviors giuded by sex
Genital stage
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Unconsciously stuck in psychosocial stages
Fixation
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A method of looking within/exploring the unconscious
Free Association
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Unconscious way of dealing with difficult feelings/behaviors
Defense Mechanisms
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Trying to forget embarrassing thoughts
Repression
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Revert back to earlier stages
Regression
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Acting opposite of how you feel
Reaction Formation
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Justify your action to make it seem reasonable
Rationalization
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Take frustration on something less threatning
Displacement
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Make intense feelings socially acceptable
Sublimation
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When you don't believe it happened (convince)
Denial
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Putting your unconscious feelings on someone else
Projection
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Overcome inferiority by doing good things
Compensation
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Shared thoughts and feelings below the surface that we all have in common
Collective Unconscious
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Mental Prototypes
Archetypes
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Males display feminine qualities
Anima
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Females display masculine qualities
Animus
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Feelings of insecurity in your life due to belief that you're inferior to others; Alfred Adler
Inferiority Complex
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Reaction to real/imagined stress
Anxiety
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Illogical reactions to stress
Neurotic trends
80
Observation, modeling
Social Learning theory
81
Our environment shapes our behavior and cognitive factors
Reciprocal Determinism
82
Inborn potential/personal blueprints
Actualizing tendencies
83
Reflect your feelings
Empathy
84
Emphasis on independent self; personal values
Individualists
85
Self defined by connection of family/friends
Collectivists
86
Characteristic, typical patterns of behavior
Traits
87
Open-minded, open to new experiences
Openness
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You follow through things you said/planned to follow through
Conscientiousness
89
Sociable
Extraversion
90
Psychoticism; helpful/hurtful
Agreeableness
91
Emotional stability
Neuroticism
92
Correct/direct answers; MMPI, MBTI (personality components)
Objective Personality tests
93
Interpret personality by putting thoughts, feelings on test; Thematic Apperception (tell a story), Inkblot (what you see)
Projective personality tests