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Unit 7 Guide: Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
Topic
Assignment
What motivates us?
Worksheet + Rock and a Hard Place article
Review theories of emotion
Psych Sim: Hunger and the Fat Rat + Hunger
and Thirst: 263-269
Biology of Hunger
Online Lecture: Psychology of Hunger
Practice/Social Motives
Sex: pg. 270-274 + Other Motives: pg. 274-278
Quiz; Introduction to Emotions
Online Lecture: Theories of Emotion
Theories of Emotion Practice; Biology
Emotions: pg. 279-284
of Emotion
Expressing Emotion
Communicating Emotions: pg. 284-289
Specific Emotions
Love Article
Stress Psychology
Over break: Stress Packet
Stress and Health Psychology
Notecards
MC Test
Cumulative FRQ
Learning Objectives
Compare and contrast the concepts of motivation and emotion.
Differentiate between biological and social motives for behavior.
Define motivational concepts/theories such as instinct, drive-reduction theory, homeostasis,
incentives, optimum arousal, and hierarchy of needs.
Describe the physiological processes that produce hunger including the brain parts and
hormones involved in the hunger process.
Describe the psychological and social processes that produce and influence hunger.
Describe common eating disorders and how psychological forces influence them.
Explain what factors predispose some people to become and remain obese.
List the steps in the sexual response cycle.
List and explain how certain hormones influence sexual motivation.
Describe how internal and external stimuli influence sexual motivation.
Describe current research on sexual orientation.
Describe the reasons for the human need of affiliation.
Describe the factors that affect achievement motivation.
Compare and contrast various theories of emotion (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Two-Factor
Theory).
Describe how emotions are affected by the autonomic nervous system.
Describe how different emotions activate different physiological and brain pattern
responses.
Explain how cognition affects emotion.
Describe how humans communicate nonverbally.
Describe how culture influences the expression and detection of emotion.
Evaluate whether or not facial expressions influence feelings.
Describe the causes and consequences of various emotions such as fear, anger, aggression,
and happiness.
Describe the biology behind emotion.
Describe the three types of conflict.
Describe Han’s Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
25. Describe the type of events that provoke stress.
26. Compare and contrast the ways in which Type A and Type B handle stress (and the
consequences of this).
27. Describe how stress makes people more vulnerable to disease and what can be done to
reduce stress.
28. Describe the three types of coping.
Vocabulary Words
1. Motivation v. Emotion
2. Instinct
3. Drive-Reduction Theory
4. Homeostasis
5. Incentives
6. Arousal Theory
7. Yerkes-Dodson Law
8. Hierarchy of Needs
9. Hunger Hormones: Glucose, Insulin, Leptin,
Orexin, Ghrelin*
10. Set Point
11. Sexual Orientation
12. Affiliation motivation
13. Achievement motivation
14. James-Lange Theory
15. Cannon-Bard Theory
16. Two-Factor Theory
17. Facial Feedback
18. Display Rules
19. Catharsis
20. Stress v. Stressor
21. General Adaptation Syndrome
22. Type A v Type B
23. Lymphocytes
24. Psychoneuroimmunology
25. Biopsychosocial Model (of stress, sex, etc.)
*Connection not needed
Names
1. Charles Darwin
2. Abraham Maslow
3. Virginia Johnson and William
Masters
4. Paul Ekman
5. Ed Diener
6. William James and Carl Lange
7. Walter Cannon and Philip
Bard
8. Meyer Friedman and Ray
Rosenman
9. Richard Lazarus
10. Stanley Schachter and Jerome
Singer
11. Joseph LeDoux
12. Hans Selye