Motivation/ Emotions
Conscious mental reactions (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feelings usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.
What are Emotions?
True or false, avoiding any type of stress or negative emotions is the best thing for our health
False
True or false? You can recover from mental disorders.
True.
Important figure in the field of psychology. Some of his take aways do not hold up, but others like the defence mechanisms do.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
True or false: people's memories are reliable.
False.
Being motivated by outside forces.
What is extrinsic motivation?
process by which we perceive and respond to events that we appraise as threatening or challenging
What is stress?
Unsucsessful medical treatment where they disconnected frontal lobe from the rest of the brain.
What is a lobotomy?
In the study in 3 identical stangers, researchers were studing the affect of _____ on development.
What is parenting?
The psychological reasons why it is harder to change a belief.
What are belief perseverance and confirmation bias?
A strategy where you visualize what you want to happen and what your plan to make it happen is.
What is W.O.O.P?
Chronic stress can lead to ____.
What is decreased health outcomes?
For something to qualify as disorder level it must be:
What is a harmful dysfunction in which behaviors are maladaptive , unjustifiable, disturbing, and atypical?
A defence mechanism where someone channels unacceptable behaviors into a socially accepted outlet.
What is sublimation?
The three ways we solve problems.
What are heuristics, algorithms, and insight?
Some level of stress (arousal) can be helpful to much will lead to worse results. This theory deals with the optimal level of stress and motivation.
What is Yerkes- Dodson?
According to Sonja Lyubomirsky, our predisposition for happiness is ___% genetic.
What is 50%?
Having low dopamine levels in the brain has been linked to this disorder. Some of the symptoms include disorganized speech and catatonic behavior, amongst other things.
What is schizophrenia?
Erik Erikson's stage of development where kids either feel confident in their abilities or compare themselves to others.
What is industry vs. inferiority?
Part of the brain involved in automatic memory.
What is the cerebellum?
Part of the autonomic nervous system that calms us down.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Process of adjusting to pleasurable changes, returning to a baseline happiness
What is Hedonic adaptation?
The tool psychologist use to classify disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
A measure of how well differences in people's genes account for differences in their traits.
What is heritability?
The area of your brain involved in explicit memories?
What is the hippocampus?