Date
12/10
12/11
12/12
12/13
12/14
12/17
12/18
12/19
Unit 7 Guide: Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
Topic
Theories of Motivation
Theories of Motivation
Hunger
Finish Hunger/Sex
Other Motivations
Motivation Quiz; Emotion
Theories
Emotion Theories
Perspectives on Motivation: 259-263
Aron Ralston Article
Hunger and Thirst: 263-269
Sex: 270-274
Other Motives: 274-278
Theories of Emotion Reading
TBA
Assignment
Communication Emotions: 284-289
12/20
12/21
1/7
1/8
1/9
Biology and Communication of
Emotion; Food Log Due
Culture and Emotion
Stress and Health Psychology
MC Test Notecards Due
FRQ
Over Break: Stress Packet
Learning Objectives
1.
Compare and contrast the concepts of motivation and emotion.
2.
Differentiate between biological and social motives for behavior.
3.
Define motivational concepts/theories such as instinct, drive-reduction theory, homeostasis, incentives, optimum arousal, and hierarchy of needs.
4.
Describe the physiological processes that produce hunger including the brain parts and hormones involved in the hunger process.
5.
Describe the psychological and social processes that produce and influence hunger.
6.
Describe common eating disorders and how psychological forces influence them.
7.
Explain what factors predispose some people to become and remain obese.
8.
List the steps in the sexual response cycle.
9.
List and explain how certain hormones influence sexual motivation.
10.
Describe how internal and external stimuli influence sexual motivation.
11.
Describe current research on sexual orientation.
12.
Describe the reasons for the human need of affiliation.
13.
Describe the factors that affect human achievement.
14.
Compare and contrast various theories of emotion (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Two-Factor
Theory).
15.
Describe how emotions are affected by the autonomic nervous system.
16.
Describe how different emotions activate different physiological and brain pattern responses.
17.
Explain how cognition affects emotion.
18.
Describe how humans communicate nonverbally.
19.
Describe how culture influences the expression and detection of emotion.
20.
Evaluate whether or not facial expressions influence feelings.
21.
Describe the causes and consequences of various emotions such as fear, anger, aggression, and happiness.

22.
Describe the biology behind emotion.
23.
Define stress and describe the stress response system.
24.
Describe the three types of conflict.
25.
Describe Han’s Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
26.
Describe the type of events that provoke stress.
27.
Compare and contrast the ways in which Type A and Type B handle stress (and the consequences of this).
28.
Describe how stress makes people more vulnerable to disease and what can be done to reduce stress.
29.
Describe the three types of coping.
Vocabulary Words
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3.
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5.
Incentives
6.
Arousal Theory
7.
Yerkes-Dodson Law
8.
Hierarchy of Needs
10.
11.
12.
13.
James-Lange Theory
14.
Cannon-Bard Theory
15.
Two-Factor Theory
16.
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18.
Motivation v. Emotion
Instinct
Drive-Reduction Theory
Homeostasis
Glucose, Insulin, Leptin, Orexin, Ghrelin
Set Point
Sexual Orientation
Affiliation
Facial Feedback
Display Rules
Catharsis
19.
Stress v. Stressor
20.
General Adaptation Syndrome
21.
Type A v Type B
22.
Lymphocytes
23.
Psychoneuroimmunology
24.
Biopsychosocial Model
Names
1.
Charles Darwin
2.
Abraham Maslow
3.
Simon LeVay
4.
Virginia Johnson and William
5.
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7.
8.
Walter Cannon and Philip
Bard
9.
Meyer Friedman and Ray
Rosenman
10.
11.
Masters
Paul Ekman
Ed Diener
William James and Carl Lange
Richard Lazarus
Stanley Schachter and Jerome
Singer
12.
Joseph LeDoux
13.
Hans Selye