Chapter 8-2019

Monday, April 29

AIM: EXAM FOR CHAPTER 12 & 13 (Be sure to bring take home test in for class)

HW: CH8HW1

Imagine being born without arms. No arms to wrap around someone, no hands to experience touch, or to hold another hand with. Or what about being born without legs? Having no ability to dance, walk, run, or even stand on two feet. What would you do? How would that effect your everyday life?

Read Text pp. 318-329 / Review book 5 Steps to a Five pp. 159-166

1. Watch the video above and identify what you think motivates Nick in his life.

2. What single thing/event/ person etc.. motivates you? Why?

3. Define motivation according to psychologists

4. How do ethologists explain motivation?

4. Identify 7 psychological theories of motivation?

5. What is the difference between a drive and a need according to Clark Hull's Drive Reduction Theory?

9. How does the drive theory differ from the incentive theory (push/pull)?

6. What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?

7. Explain how the Yerkes Dodson Theory explains high risk vs. low risk behaviors in individuals. Where are you when it comes to high risk activities?

8. How does Maslow explain motivation? Where are you in terms of his hierarchy of needs?

9. Why would esteem needs be the cut off point between deficiency and growth needs?

10. How do each of the following impact on hunger:

• CHOLECYSTOKININ
• INSULIN
• GLUCAGON
• GHRELIN
• LEPTIN

11.How does the lateral, ventromedial and paraventricular hypothalamus regulate hunger?

12. How does culture and the environment impact on hunger?

13. Explain set point theory.

14. How does drive reduction theory work when in comes to thirst?

AP REVIEW - 3- 4:15PM

Wednesday, May 1

AIM: What factors influence your sex drive in puberty?

CH8HW3: read pp 167-168 in review book

1. Explain the term emotion
2. How does emotion differ from motivation?
3. What are the two important characteristics of emotion?
4. What areas in the brain are key in understanding emotions in people?
5. What did Paul Ekman learn from his experiences in Papua New Guinea about the universality of facial expressions? Watch video above
6. What role does culture play in the expression of emotions? (Display rules)
7. Explain the James Lange Theory of how emotion works.
8. How does the James- Lange Theory work in explaining the Facial Feedback Theory?
9. How does the Cannon Bard Theory differ from the James -Lange Theory of explaining the cause of emotions?
10. Explain the Opponent Process Theory of Emotion? How does that differ from Cannon Bard or James Lange Theory?
11. What is the added ingredient of emotion when it comes to Schacter- Singer's Two Factor Theory?
12. According to Richard Lazarus's Cognitive Appraisal Theory why do we have far more control over our emotions than we think?
13. What role does thinking play for Robert Zajonc when it comes to understanding emotions?

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