AP Psych MESH

The experience of feelings such as fear, joy, surprise and anger.

• Drive
• Motivation
• Emotion
• Interaction

A specific need or desire that arouses the organism and directs its behavior toward a goal.

• Motivation
• Emotion
• Drive
• Cause

This theory holds that bodily needs create either states of tension or arousal.

• Yerkes-Dodson Law
• Zuckerman's Proposal
• Drive Reduction Theory
• Instinct Theory

Maslow explained that people fail to reach self-actualization because...

• They fail to satisfy more basic needs.
• They fail to discover their talents.
• They spend too much time on snapchat.
• They fear becoming who they were meant to be.

An unlearned behavior that is vital to survival of the individual or species. 

• Kung Fu
• The ability to run
• Primary Drive
• Secondary Drive

This theory suggests that each person has an optimum level of alertness that varies from one situation to another.

• Yerkes-Dodson Law
• Instinct Theory
• Arousal Theory
• Evolution

Maslow described the process of reaching Self-Actualization using a model called the...

• Triangle of Death
• Triangle of Needs
• Hierarchy of Needs
• Drive Reduction

Drive Reduction Theory relies on the idea that humans desire to exist in a state of __________________.

• Homeostasis
• Peace
• Tension
• Change

Researcher who found that emotional responses of participants injected with epinephrine depended upon their interpretation of the situation they were placed in.

• William James
• Hans Selye
• Stanley Schachter
• Ancel Keys

Brief, involuntary facial expressions that last only fractions of second; believed to be possible tool in lie detection

• facial feedback
• microexpressions
• alarm reaction
• biofeedback