Motivation & Emotion
Factors that direct and energize the behavior
of humans and other organisms.
What is Motivation?
This is what ZPD stands for
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The part of personality that harshly judges the morality of our behavior.
What is the Superego?
A person’s response to events that are threatening or challenging.
What is Stress?
A class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs.
What is Schizophrenia spectrum disorder?
A treatment in which a trained professional uses psychological techniques to help a person overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth.
What is Psychotherapy?
The scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others.
What is Social Psychology?
This occurs as body weight is more than 20% above the average weight for a person of a particular height.
What is Obesity?
Motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior to fulfill a need.
What is Drive?
This type of research assesses change in behavior over time.
What is longitudinal research?
Unconscious strategies that people use to reduce anxiety by distorting reality and concealing the source of the anxiety from themselves.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
Circumstances and events in life that produce threats to our well-being.
What are Stressors?
Anxiety disorder that takes the form of panic attacks lasting from a few seconds to several hours.
What is Panic Disorder?
Freud’s form of psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Evaluations of people, objects, ideas, and behavior.
What are Attitudes?
This psychologist stated that personality can be understood by exposing what is present in the unconscious.
Who is Freud?
The belief that individual characteristics, such as intelligence, talent, and motivation, can be developed through hard work.
What is a Growth Mindset?
This type of research method assesses differences among groups of people.
What is cross-sectional research?
Unacceptable or unpleasant impulses are pushed out of awareness and back into the unconscious.
What is Repression?
The inhalation of vapors created by electronic cigarettes.
What is Vaping?
A severe form of depression that interferes with concentration, decision making, and sociability.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This type of therapist believes that people are naturally motivated to strive for self-actualization.
What is a humanistic therapist?
Organized bodies of information stored in memory that bias the way new information is interpreted, stored, and recalled.
What are Schemas?
The rate at which food is converted to energy and expended by the body.
What is Metabolism?
This approach to motivation suggests people and animals are born preprogrammed with sets of behaviors essential to their survival.
What is Instinct approaches to motivation?
This is the period beginning in the late teenage years and extending into the mid-20s.
What is emerging adulthood?
People attribute unwanted impulses and feelings to someone else.
What is Projection?
Resistance is inadequate; the ability to fight the stressor declines; negative consequences such as illness and psychological symptoms appear.
What is Exhaustion?
Sam washes his hands very frequently. In spite of this, he feels that his hands are not clean and that he might acquire a viral disease due to poor hygiene. Given this information, we can conclude that Sam has ________.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Tricyclic drugs, MAO inhibitors, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are examples of this class of drugs.
What are antidepressants?
A change in behavior or attitudes brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of other people.
What is Conformity?
This uses defense mechanisms to prevent excessive anxiety.
What is the ego?
These are theories suggesting that a lack of some basic biological need produces a drive to push an organism to satisfy that need.
What is Drive-reduction Approaches to Motivation?
This considers the biological and genetic factors that contribute to behavior.
What is Nature?
Consistent, habitual personality characteristics and behavior displayed across different situations.
What are Traits?
People’s sense of their happiness and satisfaction with their lives.
What is Subjective well-being?
The swings between highs and lows that may occur a few days apart or may alternate during a period of years are associated with __________ disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This type of therapy therapies emphasizes the challenging of irrational, unrealistic beliefs.
What is rational-emotive behavior therapy?
Behavior directed toward individuals on the basis of their membership in a particular group.
What is Discrimination?
______ economics is concerned with how economic conditions are affected by individuals’ biases and irrationality.
What is Behavioral?