Motivation, Emotion, and Stress- Psychology

A need or desire that directs behavior

A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned

A basic bodily requirement

The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

A positive or negative environmental stimulus motivates behavior

The principal that performance increases with arousal only up to a point

Pyramid of human needs starting with physiological and ending with psychological

The point at which your weight thermostat is set

The body’s resting rate of energy output

The need to build relationships and feel a part of a group

Deliberate social exclusion of an individual or group

A desire for significant accomplishment

The theory that our experience of emotions is our awareness of our physiological responses to an emotion-arousing stimulus

The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus triggers both physiological responses and the experience of emotion

Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal

The tendency of facial muscles states to trigger corresponding feelings

The tendency of behavior to influence our own and other’s thoughts, feelings, and actions

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases- alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

Competitive, hard-working, verbally aggressive, anger-prone people

Easy-going, relaxed people

People’s tendency to help others when in a good mood

Self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life

Our tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

The perception that one is worse off relative to those with whom one compares oneself

Created the hierarchy of needs

Developed the sexual response cycle

Developed the cannon-bard theory

Developed the two-factor theory

Concluded that we can have many emotional reactions before our conscious interpretation of a situation

Believed that some emotional responses do not require conscious thinking

Developed the GAS theory

Was the president of the APA and used positive psychology