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Unconditional Positive regard
according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
Id
According to Freud, our unconscious and primal sexual and aggressive drive, operates on the pleasure principle.
Ego
According to Freud, the “executive” part of personality. Mediates among the demands of the id and superego. operates on the reality principle
superego
according to Freud, represents internalized ideals. voice our moral compass, forces ego to consider not only the real, but also the ideal
Facial Feedback
the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
Behavior Feedback Effect
The tendency of behavior to influence our own and other’s thoughts, feelings, and actions
Drive
urgent basic need pressing for satisfaction, usually rotted in some physiological tension, deficiency, or imbalance and impelling the organism to action
Drive Reduction Theory
theory stating that imbalances to your body’s internal environment generate dreives that cause you to act in ways that restore homeostasis
Homeostasis
the body’s natural desire for maintaining balance and stability
Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal
performance increases with mental arousal but only to a certain point for harder tasks, and for easy tasks, the higher the level of mentala arousal, the higher the performance.
Cannon-Bard Theory
Belief that our experiencing emotions and bodily activingy occur separately but simultaneously Ex. you feel scared and your heart starts pounding at the same time, independent of one another
James-Lange Theory
belief that emotions are a result of us noticing our bodily activity. emotions follow bodily reactions. Ex. you are sad because you cried
Schachter Two-Factor Theory
belief that to experience emotion one must by physically aroused and congitively label the arousal. Ex. your palms are sweaty and your heart is racing before an interview so you label and feel your emotions as nervousness
Set-point
the theory that the hypothalamus want to maintain a certain ideal body weight.
exhaustion
feeling of extreme tiredness, characterized by others feelings including apathy, cynicism, and irritability
Self-Actualization
According to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arise after basic physical and psychological needs are met self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one’s potential
Humanistic approach
perspective that emphasizes looking at the whole indiidual ans stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy, and self-actualization
Narcissitic
excessive self-love and absorption
Ostracized
being ignored, excluded, and/or rejected signals a threat for which reflexive detection in the form of pain and distress is adaptive for survival
Rationalization
psychoanalytic defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions
Repression
in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanisms that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing throughts, feelings and memories
