AP Psychology: Unit 11 Guide to Your Study - Motivation and Work/Emotion/Stress and Health
Terms
Motivation
Instinct
Drive-reduction theory
Homeostasis
Incentive
Hierarchy of needs
Glucose
Set point
Basal metabolic rate
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
Binge-eating disorder
Sexual response cycle
Refractory period
Sexual disorder
Estrogen
Androgen
Testosterone
Sexual orientation
Flow
I/O psychology
Personnel psychology
Organizational psychology
Structured interviews
Achievement motivation
Task leadership
Social leadership
Freud
Rogers
Seligman
Maslow
Agency
Pathways
Basic needs
Safety needs
Social needs
Esteem needs
Self-actualization
Self-transcendence
Evolutionary theory
Ethology
Predispositions and probability
Drive
Acquired motivation
Optimal arousal theory
Sensation seeking
Incentive theory
Intrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation
Overjustification effect
Conditioned incentives (craving v.
wanting)
Cognitive consistency theory
Cognitive dissonance
Self-perception theory
Humanistic theory
Hypothalamus
LH
VMH
Arcuate nucleus
Paraventricular nucleus
Dual centers theory
Glucostatic theory
Diabetes
Gherlin
CCK
Leptin
Social coaction
Obesity
Metabolism
Objectification theory
Pituitary gland
Sympathetic nervous system
Parasympathetic nervous system
Adrenal glands
Gonads
Excitement phase
Vasocongestion
Plateau phase
Orgasm phase
Parental investment
The spillover effect
James-Lange Theory
Cannon Bard Theory
Schacter Two Factor Theory
Appraisal
Emotion
Polygraph
Catharsis
Feel-good, do-good phenomenon
Subjective well-being
Adaptation level phenomenon
Relative deprivation
Behavioral medicine
Health psychology
Stress
GAS
Coronary heart disease
Type A
Type B
Type D
Psychophysiological illness
Psychoneuroimmunoology (PNI)
Lymphocytes
Coping
Problem-focused coping
Emotion-focused coping
Aerobic exercise
Biofeedback
Complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM)
Behavior feedback phenomenon
Fear
Fight or flight
Happiness
Anger
Chronic anxiety
Phobia
Opponent process theory of emotion
Cortisol
Corticolimbic system
Approach-approach
Avoidance-avoidance
Approach-avoidance
Double approach-avoidance
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From what perspectives do psychologists view motivated behavior?
What physiological factors produce hunger?
What psychological and cultural factors influence hunger?
How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorders demonstrate the influence of psychological forces
on physiologically motivated behaviors?
What factors predispose some people to become and remain obese?
What stages mark the human sexual response cycle?
Do hormones influence human sexual motivation?
How do internal and external stimuli influence sexual motivation?
What factors influence teen pregnancy and risk of sexually transmitted infections?
What has research taught us about sexual orientation?
Is scientific research on sexual motivation value free?
What evidence points to our human need to belong?
How do personnel psychologists help organizations with employee selection, work placement, and performance
appraisal?
What is the role of organizational psychologists?
What are the components of emotion?
What is the link between emotional arousal and the autonomic nervous system?
Do different emotions activate different physiological and brain-pattern responses?
To experience emotions, must we consciously interpret and label them?
How do we communicate nonverbally?
Are nonverbal expressions of emotion universally understood?
Do our facial expressions influence our feelings?
What is the function of fear, and how do we learn fears?
What are the causes and consequences of anger?
What are the causes and consequences of happiness?
What is stress?
What events provoke stress responses?
Why are some of us more prone than others to coronary heart disease?
How does stress make us more vulnerable to disease?
What factors affect our ability to cope with stress?
What tactics can we sue to manage stress and reduce stress-related ailments?
Essay hints (these are possible topics on the essays – some may not be used and others may show up):
Hint #1:
Earlier this year, we did an essay based on relationships between terms and a concept. Remember that
for each pair, you have to use an example to show how the first term in each pair affects or is related
to the second. Definitions alone will not score. Possible relationships may include: double-blind
research and bias, classical conditioning and fear, operant conditioning and superstition,
reinforcement and the overjustification effect, the hippocampus and studying, the cerebellum and
dance routines, and fixation and problem solving.
Hint #2:
Opposing processes are used in multiple areas in psychology. We’ve talked about two so far this year
(vision and stress), but there are many more. Can you apply what you know about opponent process to
other topics as well? Topics may include ones we’ve talked about – color vision and stress, as well as
drug use, nerve-firing, belief perseverance, sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous
system, appetite, and/or motivation theories? Be able to use specific physiological or psychological
mechanisms to explain how both aspects of opposing processes apply to each.