Motivation & Emotion I
This concept refers to one being associated with others.
What is affiliation?
This type of sugar plays an important role in providing the major source of energy for body tissues.
What is glucose?
This trait is one of the Big Five that represents trust, altruism, compliance, and tender mindedness.
What is agreeableness?
This is a competitive, workaholic (and perhaps) a hostile personality type.
What is Type A personality?
As we get older, what happens to our personality?
an individual’s personality traits tend to be relatively stable during middle adulthood
The view that human emotions are universal has been supported by studies of this subject.
What are facial expressions?
This is a reward that pulls an organism's behavior in a particular direction.
What is an incentive?
This concept is a protective behavior proposed by Freud that reduces anxiety.
What is defense mechanism?
In a stressful situation, this is released into the bloodstream from the adrenal glands and helps repair tissues.
What is cortisol?
This test categorizes users based on four personality dimensions.
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
Larry wants to learn to drive even though he is nervous. He decides to buy himself a smoothie every day that he ventures out and drives. Which perspective best reflects Larry's behavior? (humanistic, psychoanalytic, social-cognitive, behaviorist)
What is behaviorism? (Behaviorists see behavior through rewards & punishments.)
Neo-Freudian theories of psychoanalysis such as those of Karen Horney and Erik Erikson differ from Freud’s conceptualization in that they are LESS likely to emphasize this. (superego, ego, libido, development)
What is the libido?
This type of test provides a "psychological X-ray" by asking test-takers to describe an ambiguous image or tell a story about it.
What is a projective test?
Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identification refers to this term.
What is individualism?
This test requires users to look at inkblots and describe what they see.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot test?
The self-actualizing tendency is most associated with which personality perspective? (psychoanalytic, trait, social cognitive, or humanistic)
What is humanistic?
According to Freud, this part of our unconscious is a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
What is the ID?
This concept of social-cognitive learning theory is a cognitive expectancy of individual outcomes.
What is locus of control?
This is the 3rd and final stage of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) characterized by depletion of physical & psychological resources.
What is exhaustion?
This test assesses personality and helps diagnose psychological disroders based on a comparison of clinical scales.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
This is a cultural norm that specifies when, where, and how a person should express an emotion.
What is display rule?
Personality tests are typically in this format. (inkblot, word association, interviews, or self-report inventories)
What are self-report inventories?
This Big Five trait is characterized by anxiety, hostility, depression, and a bunch of other bad stuff.
What is neuroticism?
This approach to psychology emphasizes normal behavior and human strengths.
What is positive psychology?
What is Freud's own subjects?