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Psychology Ch.12 - Motivation and Emotion
Drive, Needs, Intrinsic/Extrinsic, Motivation, Emotions, Hypothalamus, etc.
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Psychology
11th Grade
01/27/2014

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Motivation
Definition
What is an internal state that activates behavior and directs it towards a goal?
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Instincs
Definition
What are innate tendencies that determine behavior?
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Need
Definition
What is a biological or phsycosocial requirement of an organism?
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Drive
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What is a state of tension produced by a need that motivates an organism toward a goal?
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Homeostasis
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What is the tendency of all organisms to correct imbalances and deviations from their normal state?
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Instinct theory
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What theory's flow is that it only labels behavior instead of printing it
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Drive reduction theory
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What do you was proposed by Clark called and chases motivation back to physiological needs: a lack of a need leads to a drive to reduce that tension?
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Some experiences are inherently pleasurable and those will be chosen over physiological needs
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What did Harry Harlow's experiment with monkeys prove?
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Incentive
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What is an external stimulus,reinforcer, or reward that motivates behavior?
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Extrinsic
Definition
What involves engaging in activities that either reduce biological needs or help us obtain external incentives?
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Intrinsic motivation
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What involves engaging in activities because they are personally rewarding or because they fulfill our beliefs and expectations?
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Incentive Theory
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This theory stresses the environment in motivating behavior
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Intrinsic motivation will diminish until it possibly disappears altogether
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What happens if there's too much extrinsic motivation?
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cognitive theory
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This theory involves looking at forces from both within this and outside of us that motivate.
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Lateral hypothalamus
Definition
Stimulating this causes one to eat and removal of it causes one to quit to the point of starvation
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Ventromedial hypothalamus
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Stimulating this causes want to quit eating and removal of it causes one to eat everything in site
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Hypothalamus
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According to the glucostatic theory, this miters the amount of glucose in the blood
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Body temperature
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The hypothalamus interprets at least three types of information: the amount of glucose entering the cells of the body, your set-point, and what
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Achievement motive
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This motivation consumes the desire to set challenging goals and to persist in trying to reach those goals
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Fear of failure or success
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If somebody surfers from this, they will often self handicap
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Both men and women
Definition
Who suffers from fear of success?
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Expectancy-value theory
Definition
This theory estimates your likelihood of success as well as what the goal is worth to you
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In the middle, not too high, and not too low
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Where should your arousal level be in order to perform at your best?
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Fundamental, psychological, and self-actualization
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What are the three needs represented in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
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Drives stress the needs and desires that lead to goal directed behavior and emotions stress feelings associated with these decisions and activities
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If hunger, fear, and love all have physiological changes why is hungry drive in fear and love our emotions,
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Emotion
Definition
This is a set of complex reactions to stimuli involving subjective feelings, physiological arousal, and observable behavior
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James Lange theory
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This theory suggests that bodily reactions form the basis of labeling and experiencing emotions
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Physical, behavioral, and cognitive
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What are the three parts of all emotions?
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Canon – Bard theory
Definition
This theory of a motion argues that experiences activate the thalamus, which spends sends messages to the cortex and other body organs. The brain also sends two reactions – arousal and experience of emotion but one does not cause the other
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Cognitive theories
Definition
These type of theories believe that what you feel depends on how you interpret your symptoms.
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