Psych 202

• control: victims of abuse
• predictabilty: expectations
• competency: prepared
• social support: family

• sickness
• heart disease
• ulcers

• expectations or demands that you behave in a certain way
• paternal
• peers

noticeable alterations in one's livng conditons

• Approach Approach two good things to choose from
• Avoidance Avoidance two bad things to choose from
• Aproach avoidance one thing to choose that is good and bad

when we want something we can't have

• conflct
• frustration
• change
• pressure

any circumstance that threatens one's well being and hinders the persons coping ability

• men have better spatial skills
• women have better verbal skills

• logical/mathematical
• linguistc
• musical
• spatial
• bodily kinesthetic
• interpersonal
• intrapersonal

• difficult to test
• involves puzzles reaction time proccess

language influences though

1970s psychology considered homosexuals deviant

• excitement
• plateau
• orgasm

1950s zoologist who studied wasps

Indifference

• dilated puils
• increased heartrate
• rapid breating
• persiration
• hgher blood pressure
• goose bumps

• prepares body for emergency action
• fight or flight respone

• Women reproductive capacity is limited
• - older males who have resources

• Men produce sperm all of their lives
• -youthful and attractive as signs of reproductive abilty

behavior when it goes wrong

• extreme
• maladaptive
• personal distress

• occursin situatons that most people can handle easily
• -panic attacks

fears so intense that they interfere wit our daly lives that are secific and we know are irrational

• obsession - overwhelming desire to do something
• compulsive-overwhelming desire to do something

• disorders of mood:
• -depression
• -mania
• -manic depression