Vocab Ch 10 Flashcards
Emotion
An immediate, specific negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts.
Primary emotions
Emotions that are innate, evolutionarily adaptive, and universal (shared across cultures)
Secondary emotions
Blends of primary emotions
James-Lange theory of emotion
People perceive specific patterns of bodily responses, and as a result of that perception they feel emotion.
Cannon-bard theory of emotions
Information about emotional stimuli is sent simultaneously to the cortex and the body and results in emotional experience and bodily reactions, respectively
Two-factor theory of emotion
A label applied to physiological arousal results in the experience of an emotion.
Display rules
Rules learned through socialization that dictates which emotions are suitable in given situations.
Motivation
A process that energizes, guides, and maintains behavior toward a goal.
Need
A state of biological or social deficiency
Need hierarchy
Maslows arrangement of needs, in which basic survival needs must be met before people can satisfy higher needs
Self-actualization
A state that is achieved when ones personal dreams and aspirations have been attained.
Drive
A psychological stat that, by creating arousal, motivates an organism to satisfy a need.
Homeostasis
The tendency of bodily functions to maintain equilibrium
Heroes-Dodson law
The psychological principle that performance on challenging tasks increases with arousal up to a moderate level. After that, additional arousal impairs performance.
Incentives
External objects or external goals, rather than internal drives, that motivate behaviors.
