Pyschology Finals

Motivation

Refers to various physiological and psychological factors that cause us to act in a specific way to a particular time.

Instinct Theory

Innate patterns of behavior that exist in both people and animal.

Drive

Condition of arousal in an organism

Need

State of deprivation

Homeostasis

Tendency of the body to maintain a steady state

Humanistic Theory

Man is always striving towards self - actualization

Abraham Maslow's

Hierarchy of needs

Biological Needs

Physiological requirements that are critical to our survival and physical well - bein. This includes food, water, oxygen, sleep and pain avoidance.

Social Needs

Acquired through learning and experience.

Fat cell

Primarily influence by heredity

Metabolic rate

How efficiently our bodies break food down into energy and how our body burn off that fuel.

Set point

Level of body fat

Gender identity

Individual’s subiective experience and feeling of being either a man or a female

Gender roles

Refers to the tradional or stereotypical behaviors

Achievements

Desire to set challenging goals and to persist in pursuing these goals in the face of obstacles.

Emotion

Aspect of consciousness

Social signal

Sends social signal about ones feelings or needs.

Personality

Unique way in which individuals thinks, acts and feels throughout.

Id

Completely unconsciousness

Ego

Mostly conscious

Superego

Contains conscience

Carl jung

Both Personal uconscious and a collective unconscious holds archetypes

Karen horney

Disagreed with freud

Five factory theory

Extraversion

Agreeableness

Neuroticism

Openess to expercience

Abraham Maslow

Self actualization is facilatated through positive regard especially the unconditional positive regard.

Objective personality test

Called self report questionnaires

Projective test

No clear specified answer

Stress

Term used to describe the physical, emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses to events that are appraised as threatening or challenging.

Environmental stressors

Catastrophe

Distress

Unpleasant stressor

Eustress

Positive events

Type a perosnality

Ambitious

Type b personality

Relaxed and laid - back

Type C

Finds to expressing emotions difficult.

Optimists

Tend to look for positive outcomes

Pessimists

Expect worse to happen

Social and cultural factors that influence stress reactions.

Poverty

Racism

Job stress