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34 Cards in this Set
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motive
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Specific need or desire such as hunger thirst or achievment that prompts goal directed behavior
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emotion
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feeling such as fear joy or suprise that underlies a behavior
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instincts
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Inborn, inflexable goal directed behaviors that is chracteristic of an entire species
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drive
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state of tension or arrousal tha motivates behavior
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Drive Reduction Theory
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States that motivated behaior is aimed at reducing a state of bodiy tension or arousal and returning to homostatus
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Homostasis
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state of balance and stability in which the organism functions effectivly
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Primary Drives
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Unlearned drive such as hunger that are based on phsilogical state
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Secondary drives
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learned drives such as ambition, that are not based on a physiological state
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Arousal Theory
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theory that organisms seek an optimal level of arousal
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Yerkes-Dodson Law
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States that there is an optimal level of arousal for the best performance of any task; the mor complex the task the lower the level of arousal that can be tolerated before performance deteriorates
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Intrinsic behavior
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a desire to perform a behavior that stems from from enjoyment derived from the behavior itself.
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Extrinsic behavior
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A desire to perform a behavior to obtain an external reward or avoid punishment
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Hierarchy of needs
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A theory by Maslow that states that the higher order of motives such as social and personal growth only emerge after lower level motives related to survival have been satisfied
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Glucose
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a simple sugar used by your body for energy
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Leptin
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A hormone released by fat cells that reduces appetite
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Ghrelin
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A hormone produced in the stomach and small intestines that increases appetite
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incentive
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External stimulus that prompts goal directed behavior
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Anorexia nervosia
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A serious eating disorder that is associated with intense fear of weight gain and a distorted body image
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Bulimia Nervosa
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A serious eating disorder characterized by binges of eating followed by self induced vomitting
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Body Mass Index
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number scale to determine health scale
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sexual response cycle
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typical sequence of events including excitment, plateu, orgasm and resolution, characterising sexual resonse in males and females
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4 phases of sex response cycle
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excitment, plateu, orgasm, resolution
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brain center involved in sexual excitment
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the limbric system
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testosterone
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hormone that influences some aspects of sexual excitment
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pheromones
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scents that may cause sexual attraction
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stimulus motives
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unlearned motives, such as curiosity and contact that prompts us to explore or change the world around us
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Aggresion
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behavior aimed at doing harm to others and the motive to behave aggresivy
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Achievment motive
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the need to excel, to overcome obsticles
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afilliation motive
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the need to be with others
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Display rules
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Culture specific rules that govern when how and why expressions of emotions are appropriate
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Izards Theory
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facial expressions emotions
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James Lange Theory
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states that stimuli cause physiological changes in our bodies and emotions result from those physiological changes
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Cannon Bard theory
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states that the experience of emotion occurs simmotaniously with biological changes.
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Cognative Theory
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states that emotional expierience depends on ones perception
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