Thursday, November 20, 2014

11/20-21 Unit 5 EXAM ---Motivation/Emotion and Stress

                FRQ's for the EXAM---You may work on them before the EXAM.....

       After your AP psychology teacher announces that everyone in class passed the last test, your              friend  Marco jumps up on the table and does a victory dance. When the laughter dies down, you        start to wonder why Marco is so extraverted and impulsive.

Discuss how the following concepts may or may not be useful in explaining Marco's impulsive behavior.
• Drive-reduction theory
• Incentive theory
• Hierarchy of needs
• Instinct
• Operant conditioning
• Genetic predisposition

            2.   Sue was feeling a little sad and didn't feel like volunteering at the homeless shelter as she had promised. But then she remembered that, earlier in the day, her friend Rob got his foot stuck in a wastebasket, took one step, and fell over. When she thought about this episode, she smiled and felt a little better. She started to feel a bit happier, so she went to the shelter to help out.

Explain how a psychologist might use the following concepts to explain how Sue remembered this episode and the relationship between this memory, Sue's behavior, and her emotions.
• Automatic encoding
• Explicit memory
• Mood-congruent memory
• Two-factor theory
• Facial feedback

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