Module 10: Motivation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal. |
| instinct | A complex, inherited behavior that is rigidly patterened throughout a species. |
| drive-reduction theory | The idea that a physiological need creates a state of tension(a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. |
| Yerkes-Dodson law | The theory that a degree of psychological arousal helps performance, but only to a point. |
| homeostasis | A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state. |
| extrinsic motivation | A desire to perform a behavior because of promised rewards or threats of punishment. |
| intrinsic motivation | A desire perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective. |
| Abraham Maslow | Humanistic psychologist who developed the heirarchy of needs. |
| heirarchy of needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs. |
| self-actualization needs | Highest need on Maslow's pyramid. |
| self-actualization | According to maslow, the need to realize our full and unique potential. |
| achievement motivation | A desire for significant accomplishment; for mastery of things, people, or ideas; and for attaining a high standard. |
| Henry Murray | Neo-Freaudian who first established the concept of achievement motivation and developed imprtant personality testing tools. |
| set point | The point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is set. |
| basal metabolic rate | The body's resting rate at which we burn calories for energy. |
| anorexia nervosa | An eating disorder in which normal-weight people have a distorted self-perception of being fat, put themselves on self-starvation regimens, and become dangerously underweight. |
| bulimia nervosa | An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating followed by vomiting, use of laxatives, fasting, or excessive exercise. |
| drive-reduction theory (example) | Need(food)-->Drive(hunger)-->Drive-Reducing Behaviors(eating) |
| easy tasks | Do easy tasks or difficult tasks require more arousal in order to be performed at the highest level? |
| physiological, safety, belongingness(and love), esteem, self-actualization | What is the order of Maslow's heirarchy of needs from most important needs to least important needs? |
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