Motivation Theories
Theory explaining that we get drives when we experience a need to maintain homeostasis
What is the drive-reduction theory?
What is smiling?
Stress can have a negative impact on this overall health-related system in your body
What is the immune system?
Unchanging characteristic; name for personality theory
What is a trait?
Social learning theorist who also influenced personality psychology
Who is Albert Bandura?
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
What is the James-Lange theory?
A type A personality can have a direct impact on this body part
What is the heart?
What is the ego?
This brain area is responsible for hunger and satiety
Emotion theory that explains why some people experiencing piano performances as scary while others just think it is new and interesting
What is the Schachter-Singer Two Factor theory?
Division of PNS involved with stress reactions
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Carl Rogers' contribution for how to view patients in humanistic psychology practice
What is unconditional positive regard?
Defense mechanism in which one acts younger to defend the mind from its anxiety
The idea that performance is best at a medium level of arousal
Theory that would explain feeling having the same activation in the amygdala for different emotions
What is the Canon-Bard theory?
Theorist behind General Adaptation Syndrome
Who was Hans Selye?
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
What is the self-serving bias?
This hormone tells your stomach it is time to eat
Area of the brain specifically designated to recognizing faces
What is the fusiform gyrus/fusiform face area?
What is oxytocin?
Someone who prefers spontaneous activities but cries all the time while doing them is high on ______ and ________
What is openness; neuroticism?
Personality theory influenced by Paul Costa and Robert McCrae
What is the Big 5?