Motivation
When you drink a large amount of water after sweating during exercise, your body is trying to reach this state of balance.
What is homeostasis?
This is the major reason that lie detectors are not admissible in the court of law.
What is because guilt, anxiety, & excitement all produce the same physiological response, so one cannot be certain that the lie detector is actually detecting lies?
This type of disorder(s) is most likely to be treated by systematic desensitization.
What are Anxiety Disorders?
This disorder is characterized by a lack of energy, inability to function including going to work or school, and a general feeling of dread.
What is depression?
Hearing voices and seeing things that aren't actually there are examples of this.
What is an hallucination?
This theory suggests that a physiological need creates a state of tension which in turn motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is the drive-reduction theory?
If you were to mask your anger toward your boss with a facial expression like a smile, psychologist Paul Ekman would say that you are doing this.
What is using display rules?
This treatment involves teaching relaxation techniques for a person to use while they are presented with increasingly more fear-inducing stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?
This disorder involves fragmented thinking and distorted false beliefs.
What is Schizophrenia?
A person who researches specific illnesses because they are worried about their health, monitors their vital signs, and meets frequently with a doctor despite the fact that they are perfectly healthy is probably suffering from this.
What is an Illness anxiety disorder?
A person who puts in long hours practicing something that they do not enjoy is likely being motivated by this.
What is extrinsic motivation?
This theory of emotion explains why subjects, who witness an angry confederate, report feeling angry themselves after having been given an injection of norepinephrine
What is the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory?
Systematic desensitization, flooding, aversion therapy, and counter-conditioning are all examples of this type of therapy.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
A person who has difficulty disagreeing with others, usually lets friends make decisions for them, and generally seems to lack an established personality would likely be diagnosed with this personality disorder.
What is dependent personality disorder?
This type of therapy uses free association, dream interpretation, and transference.
What is psychoanalytic or psychodynamic?
An addict who uses in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms is using this theory of motivation.
What is the drive-reduction theory?
This theory of emotion would explain why a person doesn't actually feel the feeling of fear until after they have run away from a grizzly bear in the forest.
What is the James-Lange theory?
This type of therapist would help clients identify and change irrational beliefs.
What is rational-emotive behavior therapy?
This personality disorder might result in a person stomping angrily out of a restaurant after being kept waiting five extra minutes for a reserved table.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
The diathesis-stress model of psychology suggests that psychological disorders are a result of this.
What is a biological predisposition triggered by the environment?
A lesion in the ventromedial nucleus will cause a person to do this.
What is to eat more and gain weight?
Damage to this brain structure may cause problems detecting the emotional significance of facial expressions, especially those involved in fear.
What is the amygdala?
This neurotransmitter is related to both Parkinson's disease (too little) and Schizophrenia (too much).
What is dopamine?
This condition makes it impossible for a person to metabolize certain proteins.
What is Phenylketonuria or PKU?
This is a common side-effect of the dopamine blocking drugs called Neuroleptics used to treat things like Schizophrenia.
What is tardive dyskinesia or uncontrollable facial and body movements?