Motivation from internal factors

Motivation from external factors

The process by which people achieve their full potential

Organisms are motivated to achieve & maintain an optimal level of arousal

Stimulus = Bodies react FIRST, then emotional feeling AFTER

Stimulus = Bodies react and emotional feeling at same time.

Organisms are motivated to reduce a state of arousal caused by a physiological need (drive)

A heightened state

Childhood experiences and the unconscious mind

Individual differences in patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving

Id, ego, superego

The instinctive part of personality that focuses on instant gratification and pleasure

The "self" or "reality" part of personality; the decision-maker and peace-keeper

The moral part of personality

A mental deception used to avoid conscious conflict or anxiety

A person forgets experience (pushes it into the unconscious)

A person refuses to believe painful realities

A person "projects" their own thoughts and feelings onto someone else

A person goes back to an earlier or less mature state or behavior

A person redirects or "places" their feelings onto a person or object.

Openness, Conscientious, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

What drives people to do the things they do

Stimulus = Bodies react first, then identify the reason, then we label the feeling AFTER (the feeling is the RESULT)

Physiological, expressive & conscious

Social group or culture's informal norms about how to appropriately express emotions

Facial expressions are connected to experiencing emotions

Negative stress

Positive stress

Short term stress

Long term stress

3-stage physiological response to stress

Sympathetic system reacts to stressor

Body tries to return to normal with parasympathetic nervous system

Stress exceeds the body's ability to recover.

Failure to remove the stressors or substituting one stressor for another

Ability to remove stressors or to better tolerate them

Perception that you control your own fate

Perception that chance or outside forces beyond your control determine your fate

A physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state

Desire to pursue rewards & avoid punishments

Brings on hunger

Suppresses hunger

Insulin, orexin, leptin & ghrelin

the body's resting rate of energy output

Point at which one's body tries maintain weight

Hidden deep meaning of a dream

Ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of one's inner dynamics

Characteristics that are inherited

People are asked to rate or describe their own behavior or mental state

most widely researched and clinically used personality test. (focuses on mental illness)

A widely used personality test based on Jungian types.

Person that you would like to be; the person you actually are!

Behavior both influences & is influenced by personal factors & social environment

An individual's belief that they are capable of performing a task.

Inflexible & enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning