Motivation
This hormone is known as the “growling stomach” because it increases hunger.
Ghrelin
These are cultural norms that influence how, when, and where emotions are expressed.
Display Rules
The appreciation of what is meaningful and valuable in one’s life.
Gratitude
The body and mind’s response to challenges or demands.
Stress
The body’s effort to maintain stable internal conditions.
Homeostasis
This theory says behavior is driven by the need to reduce physical discomfort and restore balance.
Drive-Reduction Theory
These are stimuli or events that trigger an emotional response.
Elicitors
A person’s self-perceived happiness or life satisfaction.
Subjective Well-Being
Positive, motivating stress that improves performance.
Eustress
The desire to form close and meaningful relationships.
Belongingness
Choosing between two good options is called this type of conflict.
Approach-Approach Conflict
This hypothesis suggests that changing your facial expression can change how you feel.
Facial-Feedback Hypothesis
The ability to bounce back from difficult situations.
Resilience
Managing or solving the source of a problem to reduce its impact.
Problem-Focused Coping
This theory says behavior is motivated by the desire for rewards like money or praise.
Incentive Theory
This law states performance increases with arousal, but only to a point before it declines.
Yerkes-Dodson Law
This theory says positive emotions expand thinking and build personal resources, while negative emotions narrow focus.
Broaden-and-Build Theory of Emotion
Positive change that occurs after struggling with major life challenges.
Posttraumatic Growth
The stage where the body’s resources are depleted and illness risk is highest.
Exhaustion Phase
This theory suggests people are driven to seek new, intense, and exciting experiences.
Sensation-Seeking Theory
This theory says people are motivated by internal desires like growth or external rewards like money.
Self-Determination Theory
Name the six commonly recognized universal emotions.
anger, disgust, sadness, happiness, surprise, and fear
This virtue involves self-control and avoiding impulses.
Temperance
A three-stage response pattern including alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
General Adaptation Syndrome
A stress response involving nurturing and seeking social support.
Tend-and-Befriend