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body's tendency to maintain a steady internal state
Think house thermostat: regulating the temperature in a house |
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Motivation
* Different Approaches * |
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Instinct
Drive Reduction
Arousal
Incentive
Cognitive
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs pg287 |
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Eating and Hunger
* Key Point * |
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| influenced by both biological and social factors |
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Sexual Orientation
* Determinants * |
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Unable to pinpoint, these are explanation that have been proposed:
- biological: hormones; brain structure
- child-rearing practices or family dynamics
- learning theory (positive/negative reinforcement with life experiences, suggesting that homosexuality may be learned from others |
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Sexual Orientation
* Relationship to Psychological Adjustment * |
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| There is NO relationship between sexual orientation and psychological adjustment. |
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High Need for Achievement
* Key Point * |
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| They prefer tasks of MODERATE difficulty. |
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Classic Theories of Emotion (3)
* James-Lange * |
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emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation
Ex: I feel sad because I'm crying. |
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Classic Theories of Emotion (3)
* Cannon-Bard * |
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| both physiological arousal and emotion experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus from the thalamus in the brain |
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Classic Theories of Emotion (3)
* Schachter-Singer * |
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| emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation based on environmental cues |
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Basic Neuroscience of Emotional Experience
* Visual Cortex, Amygdala, Hippocampus * |
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Cerebral/Visual Cortex - perception of an emotion producing stimulus
Amygdala - link beween perception of emotion-producing stimulus and later recall. It is involved with the Hippocampus in more repaid, "reflex" responses rather then more thought out responses requiring more time in the Hippocampus. It still involves the Hippocampus.
Hippocampus - evaluates a slower more thoughtful response to send back to Amygdala |
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