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24 Cards in this Set
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Motivation
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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
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A prospective psychologists have viewed to understand motivation
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Instinct theory , now replaced by the evolutionary perspective, focuses on genetically predisposed behaviors
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Drive reduction theory
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Focuses on how we respond to our inner pushes
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Arousal theory
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Focuses on finding the right level of stimulation
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Abraham Maslow's theory
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Hierarchy of needs focuses on the priority of some needs over others
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Instinct
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a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout of species and is on my mind
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Homeostasis
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A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state: the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around it level
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Incentive
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A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
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Yerkes-Dodson law
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The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases
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Hierarchy of needs
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Mazzio's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with psychological needs that must first be satisfied before a higher level safety needs and then psychological needs become active
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Psychological needs
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Need to satisfy hunger and thirst, lowest on the pyramid
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Safety needs
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Needs to feel that the world is organized and predictable; need to feel safe, the second step of the pyramid
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Belongingness and love needs
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Need to and be loved, to be loves andto be accepted: need it to avoid loneliness and separation, number 3 on the pyramid
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esteem needs
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Need for self-esteem, achievement, competence, and independent curling need for recognition and respect from others 4th on the pyramid
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Self actualization needs
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need to live up to our fullest and unique potential , fifth on the pyramid
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Self transcendence needs
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Need to find the meaning and identified beyond the self, top of the pyramid
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Set point
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The point at which your - weight thermostat- is supposedly set. When your body falls below this weight, increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may combine to restore the lost weight
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Basal metabolic rate
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The body's resting rate of energy expenditure
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Achievement motivation
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A desire for significant accomplishment, for mastery of skills or idea, for control, and for rapidly attending a high standard
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Emotions
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In response to the whole organism involving, psychological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
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The James Lange theory
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The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our it psychological responses to emotion arising stimuli
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Cannon Bard Theory
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The theory that any motion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers, psychological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
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two factor theory
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the Schachter-Singeget to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arrousal
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Facial feedback effect
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The tendency of facial muscles States a trigger corresponding feeling, such as fear, anger or happiness
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