chapter 7
how do we adapt to our environment?
learning
what is gradually guiding someone's behaviors?
shaping
A major source of energy in your body is the blood sugar ______?
Glucose
______ people are self-important, self-focused, and self-promoting?
Narcissistic
Is there a fine line or a large gap between normality and abnormality?
fine line
what is a response you can't control?
unconditioned response
what is the tendency to respond to stimuli?
generalization
Our ______ arise from the interplay between nature and nurture.
motivations
What perspective focuses on finding the right level of simulation?
Arousal theory
The medical model assumes psychological disorders that need to be diagnosed based on what?
symptoms
what are two events that occur closely?
associative learning
what is rewarded behavior called?
Law of effect
Excessive rewards can destroy _______ the desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake.
intrinsic motivation
To qualify as an _____, a complex behavior must have a fixed pattern throughout a species and be unlearned.
instinct
A psychological disorder is defined as a harmful dysfunction behavior that is judged A typical, disturbing mal-adaptive and ______
unjustifiable
what is any event or situation that provokes a response?
stimulus
What are irrelevant stimuli?
discrimination
Psychologist Henry Murray defined __________ as a desire for significant accomplishment, for mastering skills or ideas, for control, and for attaining high standards.
Achievement Motivation
Drive reduction is one way our bodies strive for _______ the maintenance of a steady internal state.
Homeostasis
What can create preconception, unfair stigmatization and considered a self fulfilling prophecy?
Labeling
what is the initial learning of an association?
Acquisition
what is a skinner box popular known for ?
operant chamber
Prisoner _______ has spent more than a quarter-century in solitary confinement.
William Blake
Who described homeostasis priorities as a hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
What disorder is an inflexible and enduring behavior pattern that impairs social functioning?
personality disorder