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Desire to master complex tasks and knowledge, desire to reach personal goals, desire to figure out world
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| Heart rate increases, blood is diverted away from other body functions to muscles needed to react, activates the sympathetic nervous system |
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| Starving yourself to below 85% of normal body weight; vast majority are woment |
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| Approach-Approach Conflict |
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| Decision between two favorable outcomes |
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| Approach-Avoidance Conflict |
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| One event/goal has both good and bad outcomes |
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| Motivated by the need for an optimum level of excitement or arousal performance is the best at optimum levels of arousal, depending on how difficult the task is (Yerkes-Dodson Law) |
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| Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict |
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| Decisions between tow unfavorable outcomes |
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| Eating large amounts of food in a short amount of time |
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| Has two phases: binging and purging; mostly woment |
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| Theory of emotion that the body changes and understanding of the emotion occurs simultaneously from cues in the thalamus; Inaccurate about the thalamus playing such a big role, other structures such as the amygdala are involved |
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| An impulse to act in a way that satisfies this need |
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Behavior is motivated by biological needs
does not explain all behaviors, such as adrenaline addicts |
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| Parasympathetic nervous system returns body back to normal, more vulnerable to disease especially if resources were depleted |
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| People who are motivated to eat by external food cues, such as attractiveness or availability |
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| Rewards received for accomplishments that are outside ourselves; very effective for a short amount of time |
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| Taste aversion, when nausea and a food are paired, the food will be averted in the future |
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| General Adaption Syndrome (GAS) |
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Created By Hans Seyle; Describes the general response animals have to a stressful event
1. Alarm Reaction
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| A balanced internal state |
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| Stomach feels full--> we feel full (balloon experiment) |
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| Stimuli that we are drawn to due to learning |
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| Behavior is not pushed by a need, but by a desire (incentive) |
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| Initial Excitement (Sexual Response Cycle) |
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| Genital areas become engorged with blood, penis becomes erect, clitoris swells, respiration and heart rate increase |
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| People who are more motivated to eat by internal hunger cues (empty stomach) |
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| Rewards we get internally; most effective at continuing a behavior |
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| The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
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| Causes animal to eat when stimulated |
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| Consists of Theory X and Theory Y |
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| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs |
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| Basic needs are fulfilled before other needs; physiological (hunger, thirst, sex); safety (safe, secure, out of danger); Belongingness and love esteem (approval and recognition); self-actualization (fulfill unique potential |
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| How quickly bod used energy |
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| Feelings or ideas that cause us to act toward a goal |
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| One of our requirements for survival |
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| Severely overweight, unhealthy eating habits, some are genetically predisposed |
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| Orgasm (Sexual Response Cycle) |
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| Rhythmic genital contractions that may help conception, respiration and heart rate increase further, males ejaculate, often accompanied by a pleasurable euphoria |
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| Plateau Phase (Sexual Response Cycle) |
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| Respiration and heart rate continue at an elevated level, genitals secrete fluids in preparation for coitus |
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| Getting rd of food through vomiting, excessive exercise, or laxative use |
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| Hormones are released t maintain physiological readiness described in alarm reaction, if it lasts too long, can deplete resources |
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| Resolution (Sexual Response Cycle) |
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| Respiration and heart rate return to normal resting states, men experience a refractory period- a time period that must elapse before another orgasm, women do not have a similar refractory period and can repeat the cycle immediately |
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| The hypothalamus wants to maintain a certain optimum body weight |
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Created by William Master and Virginia Johnson
1. Initial Excitement
2. Plateau Phase
3. Orgasm
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| Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) |
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| Designed by Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe; Measures stress using life-changing units (LCUs); Regardless of positive or negative, events may have the same LCU count shows correlation between stress and disease |
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| Theory X (Management Theory) |
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| (Legalism) People will only work for benefits or threatened with punishments |
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| Theory Y (Management Theory) |
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| Employees are internally motivated to do good work; has more benefits |
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| Stanley Schacter; Better than James-Lange and Cannon Bard; Both physical responses and cognitive labels combine to cause emotion; Experiment showed that aroused people felt emotions more intensely than non aroused people |
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| Ventromedial Hypothalamus |
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| Causes animal to feel full when stimulated |
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| William Masters and Virginia Johnson |
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| Relationship between performance and arousal that states that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point |
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