VOCAB TERMS
A balanced state in which all needs are met.
What is Homeostasis
Emotions that do not need to be taught.
Innate or Basic Emotions
A statistical technique that would allow a researcher to cluster such traits as being talkative, social, and adventurous with extroversion.
Factor Analysis
Yerkes-Dodson Law is a part of this theory that suggests there is a level of arousal necessary for performing an action well.
Optimum Arousal Theory
This type of fish is used to make Lox
Salmon
A personality test that breaks personality into measurable characteristics whose combination explain basic personality traits.
What is Factor Analysis
Someone who gets their energy from being alone or in a place where they are able to "live in their head" would score this kind of score for Extroversion
Low score
Stress hormones in the body will suppress the function and impact of these in the body when fighting foreign invasions like sickness.
T-Lymphocytes
This sport involves a House, a Button, and a Stone as well as a Skipper (Skip) and a First
Curling
An individual's belief in their capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments
Self-Efficacy
A personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT. that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics.
what is a Projective test?
How we know the Big Five is a valid and reliable test.
Traits change little over time
Predictable across cultures.
Emotional processing that travels through the prefrontal cortex before entering the amygdala.
High Road Processing
According to the Heritage Foundation, this nation/city state ranks highest on the Freedom Index, which takes into consideration Property Rights, Government Integrity, Tax Burden, Monetary Freedom, Investment Freedom, and Trade Freedom.
Singapore
The perception that you control your own fate.
what is Internal locus of control?
The perception that chance or outside forces beyond your personal control determine your fate
what is External locus of control?
Flexible, adventurous, and willing to try something new would point toward a high score for this trait of the Big 5
Openness
The part of the personality that represents internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
what is the superego?
This island of Hawai'i has the city of Honolulu
O'ahu
Performance under stress operates as such: Performance improves with increased excitement but decreases once the level of excitement has increased too far.
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law
The three stages of Seyle's General Adaptive Syndrome.
Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion
Someone who is kind, considerate, and easy to be around would score high on this trait of factor analysis.
Agreeableness
The interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.
what is Reciprocal determinism?
It was in this quarter that the first touchdown was caught in the 2026 Super Bowl.
Fourth Quarter