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| body's tendency to maintain equilibrium or steady state. (temperature, blood sugar level) |
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| to do well at something an arousal that isnt too high or too low might be the best. |
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| performance is best under conditions of moderate arousal. |
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| perform task so much it becomes automatic in time of high arousal (pilot landing plane in hudson river) |
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| Maslows theory that hman needs must be satisfied in the following order: physiological needs, safety, love/belongingness, esteem, and self actualization (the pyramid) |
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| motavation to reach ones full potential. |
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| self determination theory |
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| theory asserting that all humans have 3 basic, innate orgainismic needs: competence (highly motavated to suceced), relatedness (engage in warm relations), autonomy (we control our own life) |
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| motavation based on internal factors such as orgasmic needs as well as curtiosy, challenge, and fun. |
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| motavation that involves external incentives ( get good grades to avoid parental disapproval) |
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| process of effortly controling behavior in order to pursue important objectives. |
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| the weight maintained when the individual makes no effort to gain or lose weight. |
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| eating disoorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation. |
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| eating disorder which an individual (female) consistently follows a binge and purge eating pattern (eat and toss) |
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| eating disorder where you consume large amounts of food and person feels lack of control over eating |
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| a machine or lie detector |
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| James-Lange thoery of emotion |
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emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the enviorment
(bull scratching hoove looking right at you) ( dont run away because you are afraid, but you are afraid because you are running away) |
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| propostion that emotion and physiological arousal happen at the same time |
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| 2 factor theory of emotion |
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| physiological arousal and cognitive labeling (pleasent comment to you, you are happy) (feel bad you did something wrong, feel guilty) |
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| facial feedback hypothesis |
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| idea that facil expression can influence emotions as well as reflect them. (happy when we smile) |
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| sociocultural standards determine when, where, and how emotions should be expressed. (tribe in alaska dont get frustarted when there is a big storm) |
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| model of positive emotion, stating that the function of postive emotion lies in their effects on an individual's attention and ability to build resources. (good mood we think outside the box |
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| Darwin's theory of evolution, the difference between male and female in any species, is a difference in competeion and choice (one who invests most to reproduce is choice and others compete) |
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| gender similarities hypothesis |
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| hydes proposition that men and woman are more similar than differnt |
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| physically or verbally harming somone drectly. |
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| meant to harm social standing |
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| view that people are motavated to discover the underlying causes of behavior as part of their effort to make sense of behavior. |
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| 3 dimensions of causes of attribution |
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internal causes (whats inside specific to person or external and whats the situation;beth get A because she is smart or was test easy)
un/stable causes(did i blow up on gf because im hostile or in bad mood)
un/controllable(henrys picnic spoiled by rainstorm, we arent mad at him) |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| observers overestimate importance of internal factors an underestimate importance of external situations |
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| observers overestimation of the degree to which every else thinks or acts the way they do |
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| tendency to take credit for sucess and deny failure on external factors (doing well on test, r doing poorly on test. ) |
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| tendency to see one-self primarily as an object in the eyes of others |
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| process in which we compare our abilities, feelings, behaviors with others similar to us. |
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| individuls psychological discomfort caused by 2 incosisitant thoughts |
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| Bem's thory on how behaviors influence attitudes, stating that individuals make inferences about their attitiudes by percieving their behavior (look at our own behavior to determine our attitudes when its not clear) |
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The communicator (depend on characteristics for running for presidential canidates)
the medium (technology, seeing on TV is better than newspaper
Target(audience)(age and attitude are 2 main ones)
Message(elabaration likelihood model |
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| elabaration likelihood model |
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central route(engage someone with sound logical argument) and peripheral route
(source's credibility and attractivness or emotional appeals) |
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| unselfish interest in helping another person |
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| giving to another person to gain self-esteem; to present one self as powerful. (do this because one day they might return the favor) (be kind hoping someone else is nice to us later) |
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| tendency to not help during an emergency when there is others compared to not one. |
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| standard line compared to other lines |
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| change in persons behavior to coincide more closely woth a group standard |
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| informational social influence |
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| influence because we want to be right |
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| behavior that complies with the explicit demands of the individual in authority |
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| reduction in personal identitiy and erosion of personal responsibility when one id part of group(KKK) |
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| iminate involving spread of actions, emotions, ideas. (funnier in thetere than on DVD) |
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| improvement in performence because of presense of others |
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| like racing in a group versus racing versus time |
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| decision made by group is riskier than average decision |
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| strengthen individuals postion based on group dicussion |
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| way we define ourselves in terms of group membership |
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| we hate them based on their group |
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