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Sources of Motivation
Biological-Need for food, H2O, sex, temperature regulation. Emotional-Panic, love, fear, anger, hatred. Cognitive-Perceptions, beliefs, expectations. Social-Parents, teachers, siblings, friends, media.
Fixed action pattern
innate biological force that predispose to behave in certain way
instincts in humans
much is learned
Drive
psychological state in response to a physiological need
Homeostasis
The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state. optimal way to function
Arousal
a blend of psychological and psychological activation, varying in intensity along a continuum
Incentive
behavior--> to attain desirable stimuli and avoiding unwanted stimuli
Achievement
Internal drive or need for achievement. varies among individuals
Intrinsic motivation
Behavior guided by rewards inherent to the activity itself ( seems to be entirely self motivated)
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Physilogical safety love and belongingness esteem self-actualization
Emotions
Body response expressive reaction subjective experience
Body Response
arousal: increased blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension
Expressive Reaction
Facial expression, body posture, acting out, vocalization
Subjective Experience
feeling of happiness... etc
Defining characteristics of emotions
Temporary Positive or Negative Triggered b,y thoughts Alter thought process Trigger Action Tendency Passions that happen to you     -decision to act or not action
Limbic System
can interpret facial expressions
Pyramidal vs. Motor System
voluntary extrapyramidal motor system involuntary
facial feedback hypothesis
the theory of emotion proposing that specific facial expressions trigger the subjective experience of specific emotions 
arousal positive and negative aspects
Positive: adaptive negative: task performance negatively affected when too high or too low memory may be impaired
Six Basic Facial Emotions
Happy Sad Anger Disgust Fear Surprise 
Subjective experience: disgust
is adaptive and learned
Theories of Emotion: common sense
Stimulus > subjective experience > body response
James-Lange
arousal comes before emotion example: heart races then you shake with fright (fear)
Cannon-Bard
same time (specific physiological state= experience of fear)
Two-Factor
cognitive interpretation of body reaction drives emotion
Satiety
lack of desire to eat
Set point
The portion of body fat that tends to be maintained by changes in hunger and eating, metabollic rate
Adiposity Signals
Leptin and Insulin levels are proportional to body fat and energy balance. Leptin and Insulin regulate food intake and modulate effects of satiety factors.
Side effects of obesity
Diabetes cardovascular disease hypertension some cancers sleep apnea
Conventional weight loss approach
-gradual weight loss of 1-2 pounds a week -moderate restriction of caloric and fat intake -increase in energy expenditure through physical activity
Sexual Response Cycle
Excitement Plateau Orgasm Resolution refractory phase only in males
Biology of sex
female(estrogen) male(androgen)
Sexually dimorphic areas
area of brainn different between males and females. influenced by hormones
Activational effects
during period, puberty. estrogen and androgens stimulate sexual interest. androgens stimulate male sexual interest
social psychology
the area of psychology that focuses on how people think about other people and interact in relationships and groups.
Solomon Asch
Conformity experiments
conditions that strengthen conformity 
-one is made to fell incompetent or insecure -the group has at least 3 ppl -the group is unanimous  -one admires the group's status and attractiveness -one has no prior commitment or response -the group observes one behavior -ones culture strongly encourages respect for social stand…
Normative Social Influence
Influence resulting from a person's desire to gain approval or aviod disapproval
informational social influence
look to other people for info causing you to change your beliefs
mindless conformity
a change in behavior or attitude brought about by a desire to follow the beliefs or standards of others [most indirect]
Chameleon Effect
nonconscious
Milgram
practiced obedience by using shocks to innocent subject to see if they would obey him
Zimbardo
Set up mock prison at Stanford (to see why prisoners felt they were treated terribly by the guards/warden). All the students knew the role they were playing , some were prisoners, some guards, Zimbardo was the warden. Soon they began to act in their roles without even trying and knowing t…
Pluralistic ignorance
others arent helping so help probably isnt needed(see others)
Social Inhibition
fear of standing out, making a mistake, overblwing situation(be seen by others)
diffusion of responsibility
not my responsibility( dont have to see others)
Power of the Situation
Situations can often determine behavior regardless of one's personality/individual difference.
Social Cognition/Social Thinking
How we process information relating to other people
Fritz Heider - Attribution Theory
People usually attribute others' behavior either to internal dispositions or to their external situations. Internal (Personality). External (Social Pressure).
Dispositional attribution
- we are identifying the cause of an action as something in the person, such as a trait or a motive.
Situational attribution
because of situation
Measuring Attitudes
Explicit: ask someone there feelings Implicit: IAT, Bogus Pipeline (can't be controlled)
mind/body problem
are the mind and body separate and distinct, or is the mind simply the physical brain's subjective experience?
Hippocrates Humoral Theory
Idea of four bodily humors, or fluids: fluids related to personality types disease when unbalanced
How does one achieve "humoral balance"
have good diet and avoid excess. be healthy
Galen's Germ Theory
200 AD disease is caused by a pathogen, a foreign agent that disrupts the normal operation of the body
dualism
the mind and body are interacting together but are distinct entities (interactionism in the pineal gland)
Biomedical model of illness
way of thinking about a topic
Characteristics of Biomedical Model: Dualistic
Physical & psychosocial are separate
mechanistic
type of model that conceives human beings as operating like machines, as a collection of parts
Reductionistic
focuses soley on one disease or physical system
How is health defined by the biomedical model
the absence of disease
The illness/wellness continuum
premature death at one end and high level wellness on the other
What is the biopsychosocial model of illness?
basically a collection of all factors including environment, psychological factors, and biological factors that are interrelated and produce changes in the others
Why did we switch from the biomedical model to the biopsychosocial model of illness
1. Changing patterns of illness. industrialized world 2. escalating cost of health care
The alameda County Study of the 1960s healthy behaviors
sleep 7-8 hours eat breakfast rarely snacking at/near prescribed weight no smoking use of alcohol regular physical activity
Things that affect physcial health
lifestyle, social, personality, beliefs
Comprehensive definition of stress
negative emotional experience accompanied by bodily behavioral thinking changes directed toward changing
Parsimonious definition of stress
state in which demands of environment exceed resources of individual
Walter Cannon
* Early 20th century physiology * developed cannon-bard theory of emotion * developed the fight or flight theory
Specific stressor
will change degree of response
Selye and General Adaption Syndrome: Non specific response
same regardless of stressor
Selye and General Adaption Syndrome: alarm
organism becomes mobilized to meet threat
Selye and General Adaption Syndrome: resistance
makes effort to cope or deal with threat
Selye and General Adaption Syndrome: exhaustion
occurs if organism fails to overcome threat and depletes physiological resources in trying
What makes events stressful
negativity, lack of control, ambiguity, overwhelming quantity, relative centrality
Measuring Stress
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