Download Learning Objectives in AP Psychology: Motivation, Emotions, Stress and Health and more Exercises Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Learning Objectives Motivation (8A):
1) Define motivation as psychologists use the term today, and identify four perspectives useful for studying motivated behavior. 2) Describe Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. 3) Describe the physiological determinants of hunger. 4) Discuss psychological, cultural, and situational influences on hunger and eating. 5) Explain how the eating disorders demonstrate the influence of psychological forces on physiologically motivated behavior. 6) Describe research findings on obesity and weight control. 7) Describe the human sexual response cycle, and discuss the impact of hormones on sexual motivation and behavior. 8) Discuss the impact of external stimuli and fantasies on sexual motivation and behavior. 9) Discuss some of the factors that influence adolescent sexual behavior, and describe trends in the spread of sexually transmitted infections. 10) Summarize current views on the number of people whose sexual orientation is homosexual, and discuss the research on environmental and biological influences on sexual orientation. 11) Describe the adaptive nature of social attachments, and discuss both healthy and unhealthy consequences of our need to belong. Emotions, Stress, & Health (8B): 1) Identify the three components of emotion, and contrast the James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, and two-factor theories of emotion. 2) Describe the physiological changes that occur during emotional arousal, and discuss the relationship between arousal and performance. 3) Describe the relationship between physiological states and specific emotions, and discuss the effectiveness of the polygraph in detecting lies. 4) Explain the role of cognition in emotion, and discuss how neurological processes may enable us to experience some emotions prior to conscious thought. 5) Describe our ability to perceive and communicate emotions nonverbally, and discuss gender differences in this capacity. 6) Discuss the culture-specific and culturally universal aspects of emotional expression, and describe the effects of facial expressions on emotional experience. 7) Name several basic emotions, and describe two dimensions psychologists use to differentiate emotions. 8) State two ways we learn our fears, and discuss some biological components of fear. 9) Identify some common causes and consequences of anger, and assess the catharsis hypothesis. 10) Identify some potential causes and consequences of happiness, and describe two psychological phenomena that help explain the relatively short duration of emotions. Docsity.com
