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28 Cards in this Set
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Motivation
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an internal state that activates behavior and directs it towards a goal.
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Instincts
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innate tendencies that determine behavior, they do not explain behavior, just label it. |
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Drive Reduction Theory
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involves need, drive, and homeostasis proven by Clark Hull
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Need
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biological/physical requirement of an organism.
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Drive
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state of tension produced by a need that motivates us toward a goal.
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Homeostasis
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tendency of the body to return to or maintain a balanced state.
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Harry Harlow
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discovered that touch was more important than food or water.
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Incentive
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essential stimulus, reinforcer, or reward that motivates behavior.
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Extrinsic Motivation
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engaging in activities to reduce biological needs or obtain incentives or external rewards.
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Intrinsic Motivation
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engaging in activities because they are personally rewarding or because engaging in them fulfills our beliefs or expectations.
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Lateral Hypothalamus (LH) |
produces hunger signals
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Ventromedial Hypothalamus (VH)
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causes one to stop eating
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Glucostatic Theory |
hypothalamus monitors the amount of glucose, or ready energy, available in the blood. When levels of glucose drops, LH fires to stimulate you to eat. At the same time, pancreas releases insulin to convert calories into energy
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Psychosocial Factors
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external cues: smell, appearance, when others are eating, boredom, stress. These factors can contribute to eating disorders. |
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Obesity |
thirty percent or more about the ideal weight. one third of all Americans are obese. Genetic component may leave you predisposed to being obese.
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Fear of Failure |
displayed when choosing easy or non-challenging tasks where failure is unlikely.
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Horner and Fear of Success
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people raised with the idea that being successful in all but a few careers is odd and unlikely, so they fear and avoid success.
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Expectancy
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estimated likelihood of success. |
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Value
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what the goal is worth to you. |
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Facial Feedback |
you brain interprets feedback from the movement of you facial muscles as different emotions. |
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Emotional Intelligence |
ability to perceive, imagine, and understand emotions and to use that information in decision making.
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Emotions |
reactions to stimuli involving subjective feelings, physiological arousal, and observable behavior. |
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Physical Emotion
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how emotions affects physical arousal.
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Behavioral Emotion
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body language, hand gestures, tone of voice.
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Cognitive Emotion
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how we think or interpret a situation.
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James-Lange Theory
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body reacts, then the feeling of emotion. |
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Cannon-Bard Theory
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thalamus = emotion, the brain sends two reactions: arousal and experience of emotion. The feeling of emotion and the body's reaction are simultaneous.
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Opponent-Process Theory
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Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems act in concert to regulate and manipulate emotions.
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