a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
What is Motivation
100
a response of the whole organism involving (1) psychological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience
What is Emotion
100
a psychologist who created a pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active
Who is Maslow
100
disorders marked by distressing, persistent anxiety or dysfunctional anxiety reducing behaviors
What is Anxiety Disorder
100
the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, widely used system to classify psychological disorder
What is DSM-IV-TR
200
a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
What is Instinct
200
the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness
What is Facial Feedback
200
the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal
What is Two-Factor Theory
200
anxiety disorders in which an irrational fear causes the person to avoid some object, activity, or situation
What is a Phobia
200
false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
What are Delusions
300
the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When this level is low, we feel hungry.
What is Glucose
300
self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life
What is Well-being
300
the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
What is James-Lange Theory
300
A marine witnesses his convoy get destroyed while deployed over seas. They will most likely suffer from this disorder
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
300
the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorder, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured, often through treatment in a hospital
What is Medical Model
400
positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
What are Incentives
400
people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood
What is Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon
400
the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion
What is Cannon-Bard Theory
400
a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
What is Hypochondriasis
400
emotional release. This hypothesis maintains that "releasing" aggressive energy (through action or fantasy) relieves aggressive urges
What is Catharsis
500
a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level
What is Homeostasis
500
the perception that we are worse off relative to those with whom we compare ourselves
What is Relative Deprivation
500
the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
What is Drive-Reduction Theory
500
a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder
500
the third level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Deals with the need to love and be loved, to belong and be accepted; need to avoid loneliness and separation