| Term | Definition |
|---|
| motivation | the drive to seek a goal such as food, water, friendship, etc.... |
| emotion | a state of the body causing feelings such as hope, fear, love, etc. (a cognitive and physical experience) |
| homeostasis | body's motivation to maintaina balanced internal state |
| blood-sugar level | the amoung of sugar dissolved in the blood - it affects hunger |
| glucose | another name for sugar in the blood |
| set point | body regulating mechanism that determines a persons typical weight (body's "preferred" weight) |
| curiosity motive | drive that moves a person to see and experience new and different things |
| manipulation motive | drive to handle and use objects in the environment |
| intrinsic motivation | seeking satisfaction that comes from within the individual (rewards from within) |
| extrinsic motivation | seeking a reward from outside the organism |
| contact comfort | satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft physical stimulation |
| Harlow (Harry) | learned about contact comfort in his studies with monkeys |
| hierarchy of needs | system that ranks needs one above the other with the most basic needs at the bottom of the sequence |
| need for affiliation | motivation for belonging to and identifying with groups |
| need for approval | motivation for obtaining other people's good opinion of you |
| need for achievement | motivation for personal accomplishment |
| cognition | symbolic thought processes |
| James-Lange Theory | a theory of emotion that argues that the body has a physical response to a situation and this physical response is detected as an emotion (physical response MUST happen to feel emotion) |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | theory of emotion that argues that physical and emotional response occur at the same time and therefore must be independent of each other |
| Schachter's Cognitive Theory | theory of emotion that states that we have body responses and we "label" them as an emotion based on our environment and other information at hand (we interpret our body reactions) |
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