AP PSYCH 5. Personality / Motivation & Emotion

Proposed a hierarchy of needs that suggests a strive toward self-actualization when other needs are met.

• Alfred Kinsey
• Masters & Johnson
• Abraham Maslow
• Paul Ekman

Stimulation of this area would cause a rat to begin eating.

• lateral hypothalamus
• ventromedial hypothalamus
• hippocampus
• prefrontal cortex

The Yerkes-Dodson Law predicts that most people would perform an easy task best if they are at a 

• high level of arousal
• low level of arousal
• baseline state
• level of self-actualization

Second phase of general adaptation syndrome.

• Alarm reaction
• Plateau
• Resistance
• Resolution

Theory of emotion that suggests physical arousal and emotional experience arise simultaneously.

• Yerkes-Dodson
• James-Lange
• Cannon-Bard
• Two-Factor

Theory of motivation that suggests our behaviors are influenced by attraction to or repulsion from the positive or negative qualities of external stimuli.

• Instincts
• Drive-Reduction
• Incentives
• Evolutionary

Damage this and you won't form new memories

• Hypothalamus
• Hippocampus
• Amygdala
• Thalamus

The ability of brain tissue to take on new functions, usually occurs after parts of the brain have been damaged

• Neurogenesis
• Brain Plasticity
• Somatic Regeneration
• Stem Cell Lesions

For a thirsty person, drinking water serves to reduce:

• homeostasis.
• a drive.
• an instinct.
• the set point.

Hans Selye referred to the body's response to stress as:

• the fight-or-flight response.
• the general adaptation syndrome.
• Type B behavior.
• psychophysiological illness.