Applications of Psychology -Sex, Success, and Health

• The Psychology of Sex• Kinsey• Masters and Johnson

• Achievement• Intrinsic Motivation• Leadership Styles

• The Psychology of Health• Stress and Disease• Maintaining Good Health

The Psychology of Sex

• The Kinsey Report - 18,000 people surveyed• Suggested that people were pretty kinky• More representative surveys suggest people are

more boring• Masters and Johnson’s study of the sexual response

cycle• Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution phases

• The Development of Achievement Motivation• Lepper, Greene, & Nisbett (1973) Daycare

Magic Markers Study

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• The Development of Achievement Motivation• Lepper, Greene, & Nisbett (1973) Daycare

Magic Markers Study• Building intrinsic motivation• Leadership Style

• Fiedler’s Research on task and social leadership

• The importance of charisma

Achievement

• Stress• General Adaptation Syndrome

The Psychology of Health

General Adaptation Syndrome

• Stress• General Adaptation Syndrome

• The Importance of Control in Stress• Executive Rat Studies

The Psychology of Health

Executive Rat Study

• Stress• General Adaptation Syndrome

• The Importance of Control in Stress• Executive Rat Studies

• The Importance of Appraisals

The Psychology of Health

Importance of Appraisal

• Stress• General Adaptation Syndrome

• The Importance of Control in Stress• Executive Rat Studies

• The Importance of Appraisals• Coping

• The Importance of Finding Meaning• The Importance of Social Support

The Psychology of Health