Theories of Emotion
Research
Real World Examples
Miscellaneous (Stress, Physiology, etc.)
Theories of Motivation
100
This theory of motivation emphasizes the urge for an optimal level of stimulation.
What is arousal theory?
100
Research suggests that the ability to cope with THIS in everyday situations is closely related to a person’s ability to predict and control potential stressors.
What is stress?
100
Although she finds it to be difficult and not much fun, Kenisha puts in long hours practicing basketball in the hope of getting an athletic scholarship to college. She is exemplifying this kind of motivation.
What is extrinsic motivation?
100
A hostile person with a type A personality is most at risk for developing this.
What is heart disease?
100
In Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, living up to one’s potential and striving for personal fulfillment are referred to as this.
What is self-actualization?
200
The experience of an emotion, as described by the James-Lange theory, goes in this order.
What is stimulus, arousal, emotion.
200
This is the phase of Hans Selye’s general adaptation syndrome wherein individuals are most vulnerable to illness, collapse, and even death.
What is exhaustion?
200
Brittany tutors other students because she likes to be helpful, whereas Darnell tutors classmates strictly for pay. Their behaviors demonstrate the difference between these motivations.
What are intrinsic and extrinsic motivations?
200
This term is used in hunger and weight-control research to denote the concept that each person has a body-fat level that remains fixed and is resistant to change.
What is set point?
200
This theory supports the view that early explorers undertook explorations to gain wealth and fame.
What is incentive theory?
300
These are the stages in Hans Selye’s general adaptation syndrome.
What are alarm, resistance, and exhaustion?
300
Researchers gave identical puzzles to five-year-old children in two groups, group A and group B. The children in group A were promised candy if they completed the puzzles quickly and well. The children in group B were not promised a reward but were encouraged to do the best that they could. If the researcher argues that THIS occurred, group A did not work as hard or as well as group B and would be less likely to spontaneously work on similar puzzles in the future.
What is the overjustification effect?
300
Theories of motivation that assert the existence of biological motives to maintain the body in a steady state are called this.
What is homeostatic?
300
This is one of the main differences between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
What is weight significantly and noticeably outside normal ranges (anorexia)?
300
This theory suggests that a physiological need creates a state of tension that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is drive-reduction theory?
400
One of the consistent research findings in the area of facial expressions and emotion is this.
What is the universality of facial expressions across cultures?
400
When given a drug that produced general arousal, research participants placed in a room with a happy confederate described their emotional state as happy, while those placed in a room with an angry confederate described their emotional state as angry. This is best described by this theory of emotion.
What is the Schachter-Singer two-factor theory?
400
The injection of meth by an addict to avoid withdrawal symptoms best exemplifies this motivational concept.
What is drive reduction theory?
400
This is a hormone that is most directly related to human sex drive.
What is testosterone?
400
According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, these needs must first be met before belongingness and love become important.
What are physiological needs and safety and security needs?
500
The view that human emotions are universal has been supported by studies of these.
What are facial expressions?
500
Lance stays up all night during finals week studying for exams. As the week progresses, his muscles tighten and he develops a stiff neck. By the last day of finals, he is taking more frequent breaks, leaning back in the desk chair, and staring off into space. He arrives for the last test with a sore throat and headache. This model best describes Lance’s response to stress.
What is general adaptation syndrome?
500
Paul Ekman found that when Japanese students watched films of surgery, they masked their expressions of disgust with a smile when an authority figure entered the room but not when alone. American students maintained their expressions of disgust both alone and in the presence of an authority figure. Ekman’s findings illustrate what he calls this.
What are display rules?
500
Choosing to study with one of two friends, both of whom listen to classical music while studying is this kind of problem for a person who listens only to classical music.
What is an approach-approach conflict?
500
If permitted to choose their own pieces of music, students who have THESE TRAITS will select moderately difficult pieces that they can master if they practice them conscientiously.
What is high achievement and intrinsic motivation?
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