Motivation
The Structure in the Brain responsible for Feeding Fighting Fleeing and MATING
What is the Hypothalamus?
The approach to psychology that looks at your past to explain your personality
What is Psychodynamic/Analytic?
He created the hierarchy of needs
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Drive-Reduction Theory states that our bodies always try return to a normal resting state, known as:
What is homeostasis?
The "A" in the Five Trait theory of personality stands for what TRAIT
What is Agreeableness?
Every organism's individual stable weight
What is a set point?
This Psychologist attempted to describe personality with Archetypes that exist in the Collective Unconscious
Who is Carl Jung?
Researcher credited for Facial Feedback Theory (Universal Emotions)
Who is Paul Ekman?
This Specific Type of Exercise can help reduce STRESS
What is Aerobic Exercise?
The Counter to the ID that creates the EGO where we live
What is the SuperEgo?
The theory that we are curious and seek stimulation.
What is the arousal theory?
Created by Martin Seligman the scientific method to study human flourishing is called
Our bodies reaction and our emotional feeling occur at the same time.
What is Cannon-Bard Theory?
This Biological System, consisting of white blood cells may, become depressed after prolonged STRESS causing Health Issues
What is the Immune System?
Statistical Method used to allow researchers to cluster traits to determine personality
What is Factor Analysis?
Taking AP Psychology because you are genuinely interested in the course would mean that you are primarily motivated by:
What is intrinsic motivation?
The Defense Mechanism of switching unacceptable impulses into their opposites (someone who is upset that they didn't make the team acts like the really don't care)
What is Reaction Formation?
The type of test where people look at an ambiguous scene to unlock their unconscious
What is a Thematic Apperception Test (or Projective Test)
The long term chemical adrenal glands send out when stress doesn't stop
What is cortisol?
The Defense Mechanism that explains why people take their anger out on the "wrong" person is known as
What is displacement?
Part of the hypothalamus that suppresses eating if you destroy/lesion it the Rat EAT and become FAT
What is the ventromedial hypothalamus?
The Defense Mechanism that creates the opposite reaction to be socially acceptable
What is Sublimation?
One of the three basic theories of emotion that states you first COGNITIVELY APPRAISE a physiological response the LABEL it
What is the Shachter-Singer theory or "The Two-Factor Theory"
The third stage in Hans Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
What is the Exhaustion Stage?
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is often used today by businesses but was originally designed to diagnose what
What is diagnosis mental disorders (could say depression, anxiety)