Quiz 5 Study Guide

• Motivation


  The desire to act in service of a goal
• Intrinsic Motivation


  Motivated to perform for its own sake or personal rewards
• Extrinsic Motivation


  Motivated to perform to earn a reward or avoid punishment
• Drive


  Energy/Unrest that causes a behavior to remove irritation
• Incentive 


  A stimulus that motivates behavior
• Homeostasis


  Regulates, reactive
• Allostasis


  Prevents, proactive
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs


  One will solve their most insistent needs first
• Glucose


  Most abundant sugar in the blood, main energy source for brain
• Insulin


  Controls (increases) flow of glucose
• Leptin


  maintains body weight, long-term regulation of hunger
• Stages of Sexual Arousal

  1. Excitement
  2. Plateau
  3. Orgasm
  4. Resolution
• Gender Identity


  The gender that someone regards themselves as being
• Sexual Orientation


  Someones attraction to a certain gender
• Anorexia Nervosa


  Doesn't eat
• Bulimia Nervosa


  Binge then purge
• Duchenne Smile

  real smile, hard to fake, corners of your eyes crinkle
• Microexpressions


  Expressions that are hard to control and happen only for a very short amount of time
• Fear


  a response to immediate danger
• Anxiety


  a vague sense that something bad might happen
• Disgust


  feel like something would make you feel contaminated if you tasted it
• Embarrassment


  a feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness
• Problem-Focused Coping


  Try to solve the problem that is stressing you out
• Emotion-Focused Coping

  Try to regulate your emotions

  • Journaling, Wellness, Listening to music
• Reappraisal


  reinterpreting a situation to make it less scary
• Type-A Personality

  Hard working and competitive

  • Impatient, Headstrong, Aggressive
• Type-B Personality

  Laid back and chill

  • Lazy, Unmotivated, Flexible
• Stereotype


  Belief about a group of people
• Prejudice


  Negative attitude because of a negative stereotype
• Discrimination


  unequal treatment of different groups
• Altruistic Behavior


  Doing something good for others even though it doesn't benefit you
• Prisoner's Dilemma


  A choice between cooperation and competition
• Diffusion of Responsibility

  The Bystander Effect, feel less responsible to act when others are equally able to do it
• Social Loafing


  Not working as hard when you are part of a group