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Ch. 11 Emotion & Motivation for Psychology Final
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Internal External Theory
obese people are motivated to eat more by external cues than internal ones. Such as the time of day rather than if they are actually hungry
Set Point
values that establish a range of body and muscle mass that we tend to maintain
Leptin
hormone that signals the hypothalamus and brain stem to reduce appetite and increase the amount of energy used.
Glucostatic Theory
when blood glucos levels drop, hunger creates a drive to eat in order to restore the proper level of glucose
Hierarchy of Needs
must satisfy psychological needs or needs for safty before we can progress to more complex needs.
Incentive Theories
only motivated by positive goals
Yerkes Dodson Law
performance increases with psychlogical or mental arousal, but only up to a point; when levels become too high performance actually decreases.
Drive Reduction Theory
drives (hunger, thirst, sex) motivate us to act in ways to minimize aversive status and maintain homeostasis (equilibrium)
Integrity Tests
questionnaires that assess workers tendency to steal/cheat.
Guilty Knowledge Test
premise that criminals conceal knowledge about the crime that innocent people do not.
Polygraph Test
changes in psychological states supposedly associated with lying
High false positives
Pinocchio Resopnse
perfect physiological or behavioral indicator of lying
Proxemics
study of personal space
Public speaking
: 12ft
Social Distance
: 4-12 ft
Personal Distance
: 1.5-4ft
Intimate Distance
: 0-1.5 ft
Emblems
gestures with cultural meaning
Manipulators
one body part touching another.
Bitting lip...
Illustrators
Highlight or accentuate speech (Victoria talking with hands)
Nonverbal Leakage
unconscience spillover of emotion into nonverbal behaviors
Gestures
Illustrators
Manipulators
Emblems
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
blood vessels in face feedback temperature info to the brain which alters our emotions
Eg. smiling makes you more happy
Mere Exposure Effect
repeated exposure to a stimulus makes us more likely to feel favorable about it
DIET COKE- advertising
Motivational-Structural Rules
deep seated similarities in communication across most animal species
High Pitch
: friendly
Low Pitch
: hostile
Display Rules
cross cultural guidelines for how or when to express emotions
Discrete Emotions Theory
only have small number of emotions
adaptave value
Development of emotions
culture and emotions
: similar emotions across cultures
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Ch. 11 Emotion & Motivation for Psychology Final
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Flash cards for Ch. 11 of Psych final exam
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