Motivation & Emotion

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Motivation

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Psychological process that directs and maintains behavior towards a goal

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Motives

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Needs or desires that energize behavior

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Social Motives

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Learned motives acquired as part of growing up in a particular society

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Emotion

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Psychological feeling that involves a mixture of physiological arousal, conscious experience, etc

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Instincts

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Complex, inherited behavior patterns characteristic of a species

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Imprinting

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Forming an attachment to the first thing you see after birth (Geese)

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Drive Reduction Theory

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Behavior is motivated by personal needs

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Drive

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State of psychological tension induced by a need

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Homeostasis

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Body’s tendency to maintain an internal steady state of metabolism

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Metabolism

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Sum of all chemical processes that occur in our bodies

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Incentive

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A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivated behavior

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Arousal

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Level of alertness/wakefulness/activation caused by activity in the central nervous system

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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We usually perform most activities best when moderately aroused

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Actualization

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Achievement of all of our potentials

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Set Point

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Preset natural body weight

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Eating disorder; Fear of being fat, unrealistic body image, starvation

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Characterized by eating a lot, then purging or using laxatives

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Sexual Response cycle

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Sexual arousal
Plateau
Orgasm
Refractory Period

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Achievement Motive

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Desire to meet some internalized standard of excellence

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Thematic Apperception Test

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TAT; Used to measure achievement motivation

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Affiliation Motive

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Need to be with others

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Desire to perform an activity for own sake

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Desire to perform an activity to obtain a reward

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Overjustification Effect

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Intrinsic motivation diminishes

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Approach-Approach Conflicts

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Situations involving 2 positive options, only can choose one

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Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict

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Situations involving 2 negative options to choose from

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Approach-Avoidance Conflict

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Situations involving whether or not to choose an option that has both a positive and negative consequence

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Multiple Approach-Avoidance Conflict

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Involves several alternative courses of action that have both positive and negative aspects

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Emotion

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Conscious feeling of pleasantness or unpleasantness accompanied by biological activation

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Janes-Lange Theory

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External stimuli activate our autonomic nervous system to produce specific patterns of physiological changes for different emotions

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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Theorized that the thalamus simultaneously sends info to both the limbic system and the frontal lobes about an event

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Opponent-Process Theory

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When we experience the first emotion of an event on repeated times, the opposing emotion becomes stronger

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Schachter-Single 2-Facter Theory

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Theory that we infer emotion from arousal, then label it according to our cognitive explanation

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Cognitive Appraisal Theory

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Theory that emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in

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Stress

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Process by which we notice and respond to environmental threats

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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3-Stage theory of alarm, resistance and exhaustion

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Catastrophes

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Stressors that are unpredictable, large scale disasters which threaten us

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Type A Personalities

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High achievers, competitive, impatient, multi-taskers, efficient

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Type B Personalities

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Relaxed, calm;