Emotions
The three elements of emotion
What are physical arousal, behavior, and inner awareness?
These are disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination.
What are dissociative disorders?
This type of study examines one group of people as they grow older
What is a longitudinal study?
Responding to the reinforcement that you saw someone else receive
What is vicarious reinforcement?
In Freud's theory, this operates according to the pleasure principle
What is the Id?
This part of the brain seems to significantly influence emotions such as fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
A patient with disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, and hallucinations may be suffering from this disorder
What is schizophrenia?
The procedure helps to equate the experimental group and the control group
What is random assignment?
Reinforcement that is given for a response emitted after each hour and half (e.g., 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m.) in time is most likely to be on this schedule.
What is fixed interval?
When members of a group give priority to the cohesiveness of the group over the facts of a situation
What is groupthink?
According to Schachter and Singer’s Cognitive arousal theory, the degree of sympathetic nervous system arousal determines this.
What is the intensity of the emotion?
Someone with unprovoked attacks of rapid breathing, increased heart rate, chest pains, sweating, faintness, and trembling may be experiencing this disorder.
What is panic disorder?
According to Piaget, this term means to modify an old schema to new objects
What is accommodation?
The minimal stimulus necessary for detection
What is the absolute threshold?
In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this type of need takes priority over the others
What are physiological needs?
This theory of emotion says that because your heart rate increases, you feel an emotion.
What is the James-Lange theory?
The type of therapy in which clients meet regularly in a group setting and discuss problems under the guidance of a single therapist is called
Someone who speaks fluently and grammatically, but has trouble remembering nouns and has trouble understanding speech, likely has this disorder.
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
This theory of pitch suggests that pitch is determined by the specific location where hair cells are stimulated
What is the place theory of pitch?
This route to persuasion emphasizes emotional associations
What is the peripheral route?
This theory of emotion says that bodily arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
This type of therapist is most likely to focus on distorted interpretations of life events when working with a depressed client
What is a cognitive therapist?
Damage to this lobe of the cortex would MOST severely impair vision
What is the occipital lobe?
When light waves enter the eye, they first pass through this part
What is the cornea?
Maintaining an optimum level of biological conditions
What is homeostasis?