EMOTION & MOTIVATION
Which approach emphasizes that one of people's primary goals is to maximize their potential?
Humanistic approach
The approach that focuses on how a person's genetic makeup, body, brain and nervous system interact with the environment is called the _______approach
Biological approach
The approach that focuses on how our behaviors are influenced by the collective values of other people in our culture and cultural sub-groups is ______ approach
Sociocultural approach
When an complex, abstract concept like love is turned into something measurable, such as a response on a questionnaire, this process is called _____ _____
Operational Definition
Which theory argues that people strive to maintain an ideal level of alertness, wakefulness, and activation of the central nervous system. If people don't achieve this ideal level, their performance on tasks will suffer.
Arousal Theory
The type of learning that focuses on the consequences of behavior is called ____ _____
Operant Conditioning
The place where the axon and dendrite of two neurons nearly touch, and where the two neurons communicate via neurotransmitters is called ____
Synapse
When a person feels something that makes that person uncomfortable but are unaware of it, that person may accuse others of having the feeling. (For example, if a child is angry at a parent, they may accuse a sibling of being angry with the parent.) This is an example of which defense mechanism?
Projection
Which research method can create a lot of in-depth knowledge about a single person's situation?
Case Study
When using something we often forget that we can use things in different ways because we think they are meant for one purpose.
For example, people may not be realize that the camera on a cell phone that is used for selfies can also be used as a mirror for applying makeup. That's because people only focus on the purpose of the camera for taking pictures. This is an example of ____ ____
Functional Fixedness
Reinforcing behaviors that successively lead up to the desired behavior is defined as ____
Shaping
The major division of the nervous system that make up the brain and spinal cord is called the ___ ____ ___
Central Nervous System
Carl Rogers argues that people desired to be valued and accepted for who they are, even when their behavior is less than perfect. In other words people need ____ ____ regard.
Unconditional positive regard
A test that produces a similar score each time it is used by the same person is a test that is considered to have _____
Reliability
Although we smell our own perfume or cologne when we put it on in the morning, by afternoon, we no longer can smell it on us, even though other people can. This is because of ____ ____
Sensory Adaption
Which theory of emotion states that that we see a stimulus (e.g., a difficult test), then we appraise what it means (e.g., is a threat or a challenge), the appraisal determines the emotion and arousal. This theory is called ____ ____ theory
Cognitive-mediational theory
The part of the brain most closely associated with the regulation of hunger, thirst and body temperature is the ____
Hypothalamus
According to Howard Gardner's theory, people may have different strengths in different fields, such as musical ability, bodily-kinesthetic ability, spatial ability, or verbal ability. This idea is called _____ _____
Multiple Intelligence
Dr. Castlberry is interested in studying cooperative play versus competitive play in children in nursery school. To accomplish this, she is going to watch and record children's play behaviors during their regular class. As such, which research method would be the most appropriate?
Naturalistic Observation
If we stand in the middle of a straight road on a flat area and look straight down it toward the horizon, it looks like the two sides of the road meets at the horizon. This phenomenon is called ____ _____
Linear Perspective
A behavioral therapy that pairs an unpleasant stimulus (e.g., a bitter chemical put into alcohol that also causes nausea) with an undesirable behavior (e.g., drinking alcohol) to reduce the behavior is called
Aversive Conditioning
Jayla had a stroke that damaged a brain structure in her limbic system? Jayla now is having trouble remembering things for more than 30 seconds. If someone leaves the room and comes back five minutes later, Jayla might not have remembered seeing the person five minutes ago. What part of Jayla's brain is the one most likely to have been damaged?
The Hippocampus
When people are treated differently than others solely because of their membership in a group (e.g., race, ethnicity, culture, or disability), this is called:
Discrimination
A test that accurately measure or predicts what it is supposed to be measuring or predicting is considered to have ____
Validity
When most people read and come across a simple mistake in spelling like "Tht big cat", they may not notice the missing "a" in "That" because their previous thoughts, knowledge and experience from learning to read affected their perception. This is an example of ____ _____ _____
Top Down Processing