PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Starch, Cortisol, Homeostasis

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: O'brien

Document Summary

Motives: the psychologically potent idea that direct behavior toward goals such as power over others, friendship, and achievement. Drives: psychological states (hunger, thirst, and fatigue) that have a pronounced effect on behavior. Emotion: changes in physiology that are evaluated cognitively and may lead to a change in conscious feeling. Cortisol: a hormone secreted when we are angry by adrenal gland. Cannon-bard theory: a neurologically based theory of emotion suggesting that stimuli in the environment set off patterns in the hypothalamus and these patterns cause bodily changes in emotion and conscious awareness of the feelings of emotion simultaneously. Cognitive theory: a contemporary theory of emotion suggesting that the mind plays a commanding role in emotion and leads the individual to appraise and interpret events that occur in the environment. Homeostasis: a state of equilibrium of balance in any physiological system. Set point: an innate physiological mechanism that keeps an individual"s body weight at a genetically "programmed" level.