Psych Ch 9

Front 1

factors that energize, direct, or sustain behavior

Back 1

motivation

Front 2

state of biological or social deficiences within the body

Back 2

need

Front 3

Maslow's arrangement of needs, in which basic survival needs are lowest and personal growth needs are highest in terms of ultimate priority

Back 3

need hierarchy

Front 4

a state that is achieved when one's personal dreams and aspirations have been attained

Back 4

self-actualization

Front 5

psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs

Back 5

drive

Front 6

term to describe psychological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating, or muscle tension

Back 6

arousal

Front 7

the tendency for bodily functions to maintain equilibrium

Back 7

homeostasis

Front 8

external stimuli that motivate behaviors (as opposed to internal drives)

Back 8

incentives

Front 9

a psychological principle that dictates that behavioral efficiency increases with arousal up to an optimum point, after which it decreases with increasing arousal

Back 9

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Front 10

motivation to perform an activity because of the external goals toward which that activity is directed

Back 10

extrinsic motivation

Front 11

motivation to perform an activity because of the value or pleasure associated with that activity

Back 11

intrinsic motivation

Front 12

the capacity to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, or entertaining ourselves and others

Back 12

creativity

Front 13

the need for interpersonal attachments is a fundamental motive that has evolved for adaptive purposes

Back 13

need to belong theory

Front 14

when there is a motivational conflict both to cooperate and to be selfish

Back 14

social dilemma

Front 15

the process by which people initiate, adjust, or stop actions in order to promote the attainment of personal goals or plans

Back 15

self-regulation

Front 16

a desired outcome associated with some specific object of desire or some future behavioral intention

Back 16

goal

Front 17

the expectancy that ones efforts will lead to success

Back 17

self-efficacy

Front 18

the desire to do well relative to the standards of excellence

Back 18

achievement motive

Front 19

a model of self-regulation in which people evaluate progress in achieving goals

Back 19

TOTE model

Front 20

a phenonmenon of low-self awareness in which people lose their individuality and fail to attend to personal standards

Back 20

deindividuation

Front 21

when people transcend immediate temptations to successfully achieve long-term goals

Back 21

delay of gratification

Front 22

synonymous with addiciton, the physiological state in which failing to ingest a specific substance leads to bodily symptoms of withdrawal

Back 22

physical dependence

Front 23

habitual substance use, despite consquences, and a compulsive need to continue using the drug

Back 23

psychological dependence

Front 24

abnormal alcohol seeking characterized by loss of control over drinkinh and accompanied by physiological effects of tolerance and withdrawal

Back 24

alcoholism

Front 25

a pattern of physiological responses during sexual activity

Back 25

sexual response cycle

Front 26

Evolutionary theory that suggests men and women look for different qualities in their relationship partners due to gender-specific adaptive problems they've faced throughout human history

Back 26

sexual strategies theory