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Motivation & Emotion Vocab

AP Psychology: Contains most terms for the Motivation & Emotion unit of study

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came up with the emotion wheelRobert Plutchik
theory that our physiology and our interpretations together create emotiontwo-factor theory
part of the brain that controls the desire to eatlateral hypothalmus
Involves mental conditions such as consistency, balance, and harmony in one's thinkingcognitive homeostasis
Focuses on physical conditions such as hunger, thirst, and temperaturebiological homeostasis
Theory explaining why a person would want to have many sexual partnersCoolidge effect
part of the brain MOST responsible for controlling hungerhypothaalmus
did not believe in instinct theoryDavid Buss
studied how external cues affect hungeStanley Schachter
theory on achievement motivationDavid McClelland
measures motivesThematic Apperception test
Studies the physiology of sexual arousalMasters & Johnson
Suggested sensory inputs that can trigger fear arrive in the thalamus and are routed along a pathway directly to the amygdalaJoseph LeDoux
proposed that the conscious experience of emotion results from one's perception of autonomic arousalJames-Lange
worked with Ekman on non-verbal expressionsWallace Friesen
studied the importance of facial expressionsPaul Ekman
established stress response which became known as fight or flightWalter Cannon
evolutionary theory of motivationDavid Buss
engorgement of blood vesselsvasocongestion
a person's perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfactionsubjective well being
a person's preference for emotional-sexual relationshipssexual orientation
idea that weight tends to drift around a level at which the factors that determine food consumption and energy expenditure achieve an equlibriumsettling point theory
the idea that the body monitors fat cell levels to keep them, and weight, fairly stableset point theory
time following orgasm during which males are largely unresponsive to further stimulationrefractory period
reasons presented to persuade someone that a conclusion is true or falsepremesis
what each sex invests in terms of time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities to produce and nurture offspringparental investment
condition of being overweightobesity
Characteristic overt expressions is what component of emotions?behavioral
Bodily arousal is what component of emotion?physiological
The subjective conscious experience is what component of emotion?cognitive
goal directed behaviormotivation
state of physiological equilibrium or stabilityhomeostasis
effect occurring when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness or unpleasantness of their experience shifts so that their neutral point or baseline for comparison changeshedonic adaptation
increase in the electrical conductivity of the kin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activitygalvanic skin response
the need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellenceachievement motive
the principal class of male gonadal hormonesandrogens
cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotionsdisplay rule
internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tensiondrive
principal class of gonadal hormones in femalesestrogen
weight divided by height squaredBMI


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