psychology quiz motivation emotion
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alirahim2120 on January 4, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ethology | explanation of individual and national differences in character |
| Drive Reduction Theory | behavior is driven by a desire to lessen drives resulting in disruption of homeostasis |
| Motivation | a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |
| Yerkes-Dodson | level of performance related to arousal |
| Glucose | form of sugar that circulates the body and provides a major source of energy to our body tissues |
| Intrinsic Motivation | desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective |
| Extrinsic Motivation | perform behavior vecause of rewards or fear of punishment |
| Overjustifiction Effect | effect of promising reward for an already intrinsic reward - this person now does the task for a reward, now not an intrinsic reward |
| Homeostasis | tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state |
| Ventromedial hypothalamus | causes us to stop eating |
| Lateral hypothalamus | causes us to eat |
| Theory X Manager | employees are inherently lazy and avoid working if they can |
| Theory Y Manager | employees enjoy their mental and physical work duties |
| Set Point | person's weight farenheit is set. If falls below, body asks for more food until same weight is set |
| Achievement motivation | a desire for significant achievment. Mastery of things |
| Hostile Agression | aggression stemming from feelings of anger and aimed to inflicting pain |
| INstrumental Aggression | agression as means to antoher goal rather than causing pain |
| Affiliation motive | the need to be with others; anxious if not |
| James-Lange theory | stimuli in enviornment causes physological pain in bodies, then emotion comes |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | processing emotions and body responses occur simutationiously |
| Emotion | a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience |
| Catharsis hypothesis | releasing aggressive energy relieves agressive urges |
| Adaptation Level principle | tendency to form judgements relative to neutral level defined by our own experiences |
| Eustress | positive stress that increases sharpness and motivation |
| Approach-approach | both goals are desireable and obtainable |
| Approach-Avoidance | the option is good and bad at the same time |
| Avoidance-Avoidance | neither goal is desireable |
| PTSD | feeling of anxiety by an experience so great |
| Primary appraisal | establishment of the significance or meaningful the event to an organism |
| Secondary Appraisal | assesmetn of the organism to deal with the consequences of an event |
| Cognitive restructuring | replacement of irrational beliefs with accurate ones |
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