This theory of motivation focuses on the human motivation to achieve and maintain a certain level of arousal that is the desired amount.
What is the optimum arousal theory?
100
These are the three theories of emotion that combine the factors of our physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.
What are the James-Lange theory, Cannon-Bard theory, and Two-factor theory?
100
These are the three Freudian elements of personality.
What are id, ego, and superego?
100
Freud supported this type of psychotherapy
What is psychoanalytic therapy?
100
This is the theory that we act to reduce the discomfort (dissonance) we feel when two of our thoughts (cognitions) are inconsistent. For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and of our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.
What is cognitive dissonance?
200
This is the point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is set. If the body falls below this point, the body will feel hungrier and the metabolic rate will decrease to restore the lost weight.
What is set point?
200
This is the sense that one is worse off than others with whom one compares oneself to.
What is the relative-deprivation principle?
200
This is a field of psychology that states that personalities are not predetermined by life's earlier events.
What is humanistic psychology?
200
This therapy involves medical procedure.
What is drug therapy?
200
This is the concept that Milgram's experiment closely explored.
What is obedience?
300
This is an enduring sexual attraction to people whose gender is the same as/different from/both theirs.
What is sexual orientation?
300
This is the division of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body by inhibiting further release of hormones, leading to a decreased heartrate.
What is the parasympathetic division?
300
These are the three types of traits defined by Gordon Allport.
What are cardinal, central, and secondary traits?
300
This is a technique used by psychoanalytic therapy
What are free association or dream analysis or transference or interpretation of resistance?
300
These are the two routes of persuasion, one is when interested people focus on arguments and respond with favorable thoughts while the other is when people are influenced by accidental cues.
What is central route persuasion and peripheral route persuasion?
400
This is the internal need for achievement. This is the internal reinforcer in contrast to the external, more tangible reinforces.
What is intrinsic motivation?
400
This is the emotional release of anger through aggresive action.
What is catharsis?
400
These are the five elements of the five factor model of personality.
What are conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extraversion?
400
This therapy involves sending electric currents through the brain
What is Electroconvulsive therapy(ECT)?
400
These are the two types of social influence: one is the influence resulting from a person’s desire to gain approval or disapproval and the other is resulting from one’s willingness to accept others’ opinions.
What is normative social influence and informational social influence?
500
This is the disorder that is characterized by episodes of overeating of usually high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, and fasting.
What is bulimia nervosa?
500
This describes one's self-perceived happiness and satisfaction with life. This is a focus for positive psychology that aims to make normal life more fulfilling.
What is subjective well-being?
500
These are the two types of personal contol that affect personality development.
What are the external locus of control and the internal locus of control?
500
These are the four types of exposure therapy
What are Systematic desensitization, Virtual reality exposure therapy, Aversive conditioning?
500
These are the 3 major terms that describe the influence of the presence of others on an individual’s behavior/
What are social facilitation, social loafing, and deindividuation?