Py101 Final Exam
Anal - correct answer ✔• 2nd Stage of Psychosexual Development.
• 2-3 years.
• Learning to control the bowels leads to a focus on the anus
• Conflict = toilet training
Anxious attachment - correct answer ✔agitated and worried partner will
leave; clingy
Approach goals - correct answer ✔Positive experiences that you seek
directly
Approach-approach conflicts - correct answer ✔Occur when you are equally
attracted to two or more possible activities or goals
Approach-avoidance conflicts - correct answer ✔Occur when a single activity
or goal has both a positive and a negative aspect
Attitude accessibility - correct answer ✔Easily activated attitudes are more
stable, predictive of behavior, and resistant to change
Attitude specificity - correct answer ✔The more specific the attitude, the
more predictive it is
Attitudes - correct answer ✔People's evaluations of objects, of events, or of
ideas
, - Can be about trivial topics (e.g., favorite soda, board game) or grand issues
(e.g., politics, religion)
- We can be aware of them or not
- Can be simple or complex
Attribution theory - correct answer ✔Theory that suggests that people are
motivated to find situational or dispositional causes for their own and other
people's behaviors
Attributions - correct answer ✔Our causal explanations for other people's
behavior
Avoidance goals - correct answer ✔Involve the effort to avoid unpleasant
experiences
Avoidance-avoidance conflicts - correct answer ✔Require you to choose
between the lesser of two evils because you dislike both alternatives
Avoidant attachment - correct answer ✔distrustful; avoids intimate
attachments
Biology of love - correct answer ✔• Neurological origins of passionate love
begin in infancy, when infants attach to the mother
• Hormones involved in pleasure and reward are activated in the mother-baby
bond and in the pair bond of adult lovers
• Vasopressin, oxytocin
• Increasing these oxytocin leads to:
• Greater trust in risky situations
• Greater affection (e.g., gazing, touching) among romantic couples
Anal - correct answer ✔• 2nd Stage of Psychosexual Development.
• 2-3 years.
• Learning to control the bowels leads to a focus on the anus
• Conflict = toilet training
Anxious attachment - correct answer ✔agitated and worried partner will
leave; clingy
Approach goals - correct answer ✔Positive experiences that you seek
directly
Approach-approach conflicts - correct answer ✔Occur when you are equally
attracted to two or more possible activities or goals
Approach-avoidance conflicts - correct answer ✔Occur when a single activity
or goal has both a positive and a negative aspect
Attitude accessibility - correct answer ✔Easily activated attitudes are more
stable, predictive of behavior, and resistant to change
Attitude specificity - correct answer ✔The more specific the attitude, the
more predictive it is
Attitudes - correct answer ✔People's evaluations of objects, of events, or of
ideas
, - Can be about trivial topics (e.g., favorite soda, board game) or grand issues
(e.g., politics, religion)
- We can be aware of them or not
- Can be simple or complex
Attribution theory - correct answer ✔Theory that suggests that people are
motivated to find situational or dispositional causes for their own and other
people's behaviors
Attributions - correct answer ✔Our causal explanations for other people's
behavior
Avoidance goals - correct answer ✔Involve the effort to avoid unpleasant
experiences
Avoidance-avoidance conflicts - correct answer ✔Require you to choose
between the lesser of two evils because you dislike both alternatives
Avoidant attachment - correct answer ✔distrustful; avoids intimate
attachments
Biology of love - correct answer ✔• Neurological origins of passionate love
begin in infancy, when infants attach to the mother
• Hormones involved in pleasure and reward are activated in the mother-baby
bond and in the pair bond of adult lovers
• Vasopressin, oxytocin
• Increasing these oxytocin leads to:
• Greater trust in risky situations
• Greater affection (e.g., gazing, touching) among romantic couples
