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Core Concepts Psychology Zimbardo Chapter 9
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Emotion
Definition
four-part process, involves physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation, and behavioral expression. They help deal with important events.
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What are the four components to emotion?
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Physiological arousal, cognitive interpretation, subjective feelings, and behavioral expressions.
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Physiological arousal
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Alarm broadcast simultaneously throughout the autnomic nervous system and the endocrine system, It results in a visceral response that includes your beating heart.
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Cognitive interpretation
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interpretation of events and feelings, involves conscious recognition and interpretation of the situation
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subjective feeling
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brain senses the body's current state of of arousal, or memories of the body's state in similar situations in the past.
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Somatic marker
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storing of an emotional "body-image"
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Behavioral expression
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shouting, dancing, fight or flight, vocalizations, crying as a reaction to an event or news.
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positive emotions
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approach, makes a situation attractive
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negative emotions
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avoidance, the situation becomes unattractive
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who are the three people that had theories for the basic emotions?
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Carrol Izard, Paul Ekman, and Robert Plutchik.
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Carrol izard suggested how many emotions exist?
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6 basic emotions- interest, joy, anger, sadness, disgust, fear.
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Paul Ekman suggested how many emotions exist?
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7- anger, disgust,fear, happiness,sadness,contempt, surprise
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Robert Plutchik suggested how many emotions exist?
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Eight.
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secondary emotions
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blends of other emotions, like the color wheel.
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According to Paul Ekman what do people understand would around?
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The same basic body language
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Display rules
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The permissible ways of displaying emotions in a particular society.
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there are Two distinct brain pathways for what?
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Emotional arousal
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system for Emotions in the unconscious
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fast response system
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fast response system
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operates at unconscious level, responds quickly to cues of potentially important events, even before they've reached consciousness. creates a near-instantaneous fright response to an unexpected noise, warning system.
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Implicit Memory
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linked to fast-response system, is an early defense that produces fright response.
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Concsious emotional processing
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explicit memory
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Explicit memory
Definition
A fear that grows in your mind slowly, EX: anticipation for a speech.
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Interaction of both conscious and unconscious emotions
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can produce intuition, or the knot in your stomach before a speech. unconscious feelings can well up into consciousness from the unconscious system.
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What is the limbic system's role in emotion?
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Both pathways rely on circuits in the limbic systems.
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What is the Amygdala's role in emotions?
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stands alert for threats like a gaurd dog, it recieves messages from the quick-and-unconscious emotion-processing pathway, as well as the longer-and-slower conscious pathway.
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What is the Cerebral Cortex's Role in emotion?
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interprets events and associates them with memories and feelings, it helps us make decisions by attaching emotional values to alternative choices.
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Where do emotion and reason meet in the brain according to Neuroscientists?
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ventromedial prefrontal cortex
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Lateralization of emotion
Definition
different influences of the two brain hemispheres on various emotions. LEFT- positive emotions
RIGHT- negative.
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JAMES-LANGE THEORY
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Emotion-provoking stimulus produces a physical response that, in turn, produces an emotion.
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Cannon-Bard theory
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emotional feeling and internal physiological response occur at the same time.
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TWO-FACTOR THEORY
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emotion results from the cognitive appraisal of both physical arousal, and an emotion provoking stimulus.
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What are basic emotions driven by?
Definition
deep structures in the primitive brain
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emotional schemas
Definition
rely heavily on conscious cognitions,involve the cortex
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Inverted U function
Definition
term that describes the relationship between arousal and performance, both low and high levels of arousal produce lower performance than does a moderate level of arousal.
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Sensation seekers
Definition
thrill seekers, in Zukerman's theory, individuals who have a biological need for higher levels of stimulation that do most other people.
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Emotional intelligence
Definition
the ability to understand and control emotional responses.
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four components of emotional intelligence.
Definition
perceiving emotions,using emotions,understanding emotions, managing emotions.
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Liberman suggests what about emotional intelligence?
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It may be another name for extraversion.
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Motivation
Definition
refers to all the processes involved in initiating, directing and maintaining physical and psychological activities, directs our behavior.
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Drive
Definition
Biological instigated motivation
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motive
Definition
internal mechanizm that arouses the organism and then selects and directs behavior. The term motive is often used in the narrower sense of a motivational process that is learned rather than biologically based.
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intrinsic motivation
Definition
desire to engage in an activity for its own sake,rather than for some external consequence, such as a reward.
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How Motivations connects,accounts, explains, and relates.
Definition
- connects observable behavior to internal states.
-accounts for variability in behavior
-explains perseverance despite adversity.
-relate biology to behavior
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Extrinsic motivation
Definition
desire to engage in an activity to achieve an external consequence EX: Reward.
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conscious motivation
Definition
motive of which one is aware
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unconscious motivation
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a motive of which one is consciously unaware. Freud emphasized unconscious motivation.
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instinct theory
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view that certain behaviors are completely determined by innate factors.
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Why was the instinct theory flawed?
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The instinct theory was flawed because it overlooked the effects of learning because it employed insticnts as merely lables, rather than as explanations for behavior.
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fixed-action patterns
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genetically based behaviors, seen across a species, that can be set off by a specific stimulus. The concept of fixed-action patters has replaced the older notion of instinct.
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Drive theory
Definition
alternative to instinct theory, explains motivation as a process in which a biological need produces a drive, a state of tension or energy that moves an organism to meet the need. For most drives this process returns the organism to a balanced condition, known as homeostasis.
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Need
Definition
In drive theory, a need is a biological imbalance, that threatens survival , if the need is left unmet, biological needs are believed to produce drives.
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Homeostasis
Definition
The body's tendency to maintain a biologically balanced condition, especially with regard to nutrients,water, and temperature.
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Locus of control
Definition
an individual's sense of whether control over his or her life is internal or external.
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Id
Definition
unconscious motivation..comes from the murky depths of the unconscious
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What are the two basic desires?
Definition
Eros
Thanatos
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Eros
Definition
erotic desires
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Thanatos
Definition
aggressive, destructive impulse.
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Abraham Maslow
Definition
hierarchy of needs, Humanistic theory.
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Hierarchy of needs
Definition
six classes of needs listed in priority order.
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list Hierarchy of needs In order.
Definition
Biological-food water
Safety
attachment and affiliation- need to be loved
esteem- need for self confidence
Self-actualization- need to fulfill potential goals
Self-transcendence- need to further some cause beyond the self.
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Over justification
Definition
reward given without regard for quality of performance, EX: child receiving money for playing video games
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Flow
Definition
activity that makes you lose track of time.
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Thematic apperception test
Definition
tell short stories based on a picture for projection purposes.
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need for achievement
Definition
MURRAY AND McCLELLAND's THEORY- a mental state that produces a psychological motive to excel or to reach some goal.
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What are the three distinct motivational patterns based on needs?
Definition
need for achievement, need for power, need for affiliation
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individualism
Definition
places a high value on individual achievement and distinction
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collectivism
Definition
values group loyalty and pride over individual distinction
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Set point
Definition
tendency of the body to maintain a certain level of fat and body weight.
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4 biological factors affecting hunger and eating.
Definition
brain mechanisms controlling hunger,set point mechanisms(homeostatic), sensors in the stomach, reward system preferences, exercise.
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Masters and Johnsons did what study?
Definition
gender similarities and the physiology of sex.
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Sexual response cycle
Definition
four-state sequence of arousal,plateau,orgasm, and resolution occurring in both men and women.
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What are the four phases of sexual response?
Definition
Excitement, plateau phase, orgasm phase, resolution phase.
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Sexual scripts
Definition
socially learned ways of responding in sexual situations.
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false positives
Definition
mistaken identification of a person as having a particular characteristic. in polygraph, a false positive is an erroneous identification of a truthful person as being a liar.
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