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Motivation & Emotion
Vocab Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Instincts | Complex behaviors that are rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned- happen without conscious control |
| Achievement Motivation | A desire for significant accomplishment: for mastery of things, people or ideas; for attaining a high standard |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active |
| Motivations | Needs or desires that energize and direct and individuals personal behavior |
| Drive Reduction Theory | The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need |
| James-Lange Theory of Emotion | Theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli |
| Lateral Hypothalamus | A part of the hypothalamus that is concerned with hunger. Damage to this area can cause reduced food intake. Stimulating the lateral hypothalamus causes a desire to eat |
| Secondary drives | An acquired drive not directly related to physiological needs |
| Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion | Theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion |
| Set-point Theory | The point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight |
| Opponent-process Theory of Motivation | States that people are usually at a normal, or baseline, state. We might perform an act that moves us from the baseline state, but will eventually reach it again |
| Two-Factor Theory | Schachter's theory that to experience emotion one must be physically aorused and cognitively label the arousal |
| Primary Drives | A drive that is directly related to one's physiological needs (such as food, water, human interactions, etc) |
| Arousal Theory | The arousal theory of motivation suggests that people are driven to perform actions in order to maintain an optimum level of physiological arousal |
| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | term used to describe the body's short-term and long-term reactions to stress; occurs in 3 stages- alarm reaction, stage of resistance, and stage of exhaustion |
| Incentives | a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior |
| Approach-Approach Conflict | Occurs when you must choose between two desirable outcomes |
| Obesity | Obesity means having too much body fat. It is not the same as being overweight, which means weighing too much |
| Intrinsic Motivation | Intrinsic motivation refers to behavior that is driven by internal rewards. In other words, the motivation to engage in a behavior arises from within the individual because it is intrinsically rewarding. |
| Approach-Avoidance Conflict | Approach-avoidance conflicts occur when there is one goal or event that has both positive and negative effects or characteristics that make the goal appealing and unappealing simultaneously |
| Bulimia | An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise |
| Extrinsic Motivators | Engaging in a behavior in order to earn external rewards or avoid punishments |
| Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict | Psychological conflict that results when a choice must be made between two undesirable alternatives |
| Anorexia | An eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve |
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