[PSYC 2330] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (12 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Environment: the way you feel, always a stimulus. Detectable change in internal/external environment: neutral: phone, pencil, appetite: salad, water, aversive: spider, snake. Set of responses to an organism, usually in relation to environmental stimuli. Instinctual: genetically programmed; occur when circumstances are appropriate & require no learning: learned: behaviours adapted to the environment; flexible & open to modification. Influenced by natural selection: core of theory was a system of instincts. Instincts are behaviours; controlled by genes: appetitive: behaviours that are flexible, adapted to environment, subject to modification through learning, consummatory: fixed action patterns; ca(cid:374)"t teach a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als this. Key because once you have them you get a response. The way you express emotions with your face is instinctual: deaf people use the same facial expressions as seeing people. Energy: ca(cid:374)"t do a(cid:374)y sti(cid:373)uli (cid:449)ithout e(cid:374)ergy, need energy to generate response, homeostasis: tendency of an organism to maintain internal equilibrium. Body is designed to obtain a balance (hormones, learning)