Motivation
The needs, desires, feelings and ideas that direct behavior toward a goal is called ________.
Motivation
Psychological states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, and behavioral responses.
Emotion
A very short-term type of stress.
Acute Stress
The scientific study of an individual's unique, relatively consistent pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is called
Personality Psychology
This approach to personality testing is focused identifying and measuring individual personality characteristics.
Trait testing
__________ suggested that people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs.
Abraham Maslow
Facial expressions, gestures, posture, distance, and nonlinguistic vocal characteristics that express emotional feelings.
Nonverbal Communication
Stress that continues for long periods of time and has significant impacts on the body.
Chronic Stress
This theory of personality states that our personalities are determined by forces over which we have very little control and about which we are generally unaware (subconscious).
Psychoanalytic / Psychodynamic
This type of personality test uses a self-report inventory designed to identify a person's personality type, strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. Based on the answers to the questions on the inventory, people are identified as having one of 16 personality types.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
At the highest level of Maslow's hierarchy, the need that essentially equates to achieving one’s full potential is called
Self-Actualizing
Which theory of emotion states that the physiological arousal occurs first, and then the individual must identify the reason for this arousal to experience and label it as an emotion?
Two-Factor Theory
(Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory)
This type of coping strategy removes stressors or enables us to better tolerate them.
Adaptive Coping
Personality test that provides ambiguous stimuli and test-takers tell a story about it.
Projective Personality Tests
This type of personality test is used by mental health professionals to help diagnose mental health disorders.
MMPI-II
The theory of motivation which states that we are pulled into action by positive or negative outside incentives.
Incentive Theory
Which theory of emotion states that emotions occur as a result of physiological reactions?
James-Lange Theory
This type of coping strategy fails to remove the stressors or substitutes one stressor for another.
Maladaptive Coping
This theory of personality emphasizes the importance of free will and individual experience in the development of personality. We seek to be better and reach our full potential.
Humanistic
The theory of motivation which states that we are motivated to experience stimulation.
Optimum Arousal Theory
Which theory of emotion suggests that the physical and psychological experience of emotion happen at the same time?
Cannon-Bard Theory
This type of stress is the effect of positive events, or the optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well-being (creates motivation).
Eustress
This theory of personality suggests that personality is a result of interaction between the individual and the environment. How we are raised determines our personality.
Behavioral