Flashcards: AP Psychology: Motivation - 6 Theories of Motivation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 motivation | a usually internal condition that can be inferred to initiate, activate, or maintain an dorganism's goal-directed behavior |
| Instinct | fixed behavioral pattern produced without learning |
| little | rigid behavior patterns have _____ relevance to humans |
| evolutionary | eating, drinking, sleeping, reproducing, pain avoidance, temp. regulation, emotion: looked at by _____ theorists |
| natural selection | conclusion of evolutionary theorist: organisms develop if evolved through _____ _____ |
| brain | organisms that learn well code learning in _____ |
| attain, reestablish, maintain | drive assumes organism is motivated to act because of need to _____, _____, _____ a goal for survival |
| Clark Hull | person who argued that stimulus-response associations are partially determined by motivational drive state |
| Donald Hebb optimal arousal | _____ _____'s _____ _____ theory says that human functioning is most efficient when a person is at the optimal arousal level |
| expectancy | David McLellan: _____ theorist |
| socioeconomic ethnicity | needs for achievement determined by _____ status and _____ |
| cognitive | _____ theory: asserts that people determine goals and means |
| Humanistic | compilation theory |
| abraham maslow | person who created heirarchy about needs |
| good potential trusting | assumptions made w/ heirarchy of needs: people are essentially _____, people possess inclination to develop _____, born _____ |
| self actualization esteem belonging safety physical | 5 levels of heirarchy |