Unit 7: Personality

• Emotions are controlled primarily by the?

  The Limbic System
• According to the drive-reduction theory of motivation, drives arise because of physiological imbalances in?

  Homeostasis
• The neurotransmitter dopamine is most closely associated with?

  Reward-seeking behavior
• Canon-Bard Theory

  • Outside events can cause emotional and physcial responses at the same time
• James-Lange Theory

  • Physical changes in the body happens first, which then leads to the experience of emotion
• Stress can most likely contribute to heart disease because?

  Cortisol released during stress reduces the flexibility of blood vessels, so the heart has to work harder
• Alfred Adler

  • Stressed the importance of nurturing feelings of belonging and striving for superiority
• The defense mechanism reaction formation is defined as ?

  Reversing the direction of a disturbing feeling or desire to make it safer or more socially acceptable
• All of the following personality theorists can be considered psychodynamic in approach EXCEPT?

  Albert Bandura
• Carl Jung's theory of anima and animus posits that?

  There is both a female and male side side to each personality