motivation/emotion
The experience of feelings that underlies behavior
What is emotion?
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
What is consciousness?
An operant conditioning procedure in which reinforcers guide behavior toward closer and closer approximations of the desired behavior
What is shaping?
A disorder involving intense, frequent or continuous anxiety, which may lead to disruptive avoidance behavior
What is anxiety disorder?
The primary area for processing visual information in the brain
What is the occipital lobe?
The inner directing force; specific need or desire; arouses individual and directs behavior
What is the motive?
Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams commonly occur. Also known as paradoxical sleep, because the muscles are relaxed (except for minor twitches) but other body systems are active
An increasing behavior by stopping or reducing negative stimuli. It is any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengthens the response
What is negative reinforcement?
A disorder characterized by constant inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity
What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
The part of the brain influences emotions such as aggression, fear, and self-protective behaviors
What is the amygdala?
The theory that motivated behavior is an attempt to reduce a state of tension/arousal in the body and return the body to a state of balance
What is drive-reduction theory?
A sleep disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep attacks. The sufferer may lapse directly into REM sleep, often at inopportune times
What is narcolepsy?
A stimulus that unconditionally - naturally and automatically - triggers a response
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
A psychological disorder marked by extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression)
What is bipolar disorder?
The part of the brain that controls the production of speech
What is Broca’s Area?
The theory stating that processing emotions and bodily response occur simultaneously
What is Cannon-Bard Theory?
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream
What is latent content?
A reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses
What is a fixed ratio schedule?
Hallucinations and delusions are positive symptoms of this disorder
What is schizophrenia?
The part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles, and also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex
What are the pons?
The theory that stimuli in environment cause physiological change in bodies, then emotion comes
What is James-Lange Theory?
A suggestion that is made to a person who is hypnotized that specifies an action he will perform (usually in response to a cue) after he has awakened
What is posthypnotic suggestion?
The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response
What is spontaneous recovery?
An anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions
What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
The system of neurons that weaves through the limbic system and plays a role in attention, arousal, and alert functions
What is reticular formation?