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Motivation & Emotion
AP Psychology isnt worth it kids
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hierarchy of Needs | The pyramid of people's needs that start from the most important basic needs at the bottom, and work their way up. |
| Motivations | The process that acts, guides, and maintains behaviors |
| Drive Reduction Theory | Physiological need -> state of tension -> motivation to satisfy need |
| James-Lange Theory of Emotion | external stimulus produces a physiological response in the body. You ten examine this physiological response and identify the emotion you are feeling. |
| Lateral Hypothalamus | The part of the brain that is associated with hunger. |
| Secondary drives | acquired drives that do not have to do with physiological needs |
| Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion | an emotion is produced when when some stimulus triggers the thalamus to send information simultaneously to the brain (specifically, the cerebral cortex) and the autonomic system (including the skeletal muscles). |
| Set-Point Theory | The fixed body weight and size that the brain tries to keep the body at. |
| Opponent-Process Theory of Motivation | A theory suggested by Solomon where emotional reactions to a stimulus are followed by opposite emotional reactions. |
| Two Factor Theory | feeling a physical arousal to a stimuli, and then our brain cognitively labels that stimuli with an emotion. |
| Primary Drives | Food, Water, Shelter, Sex (Hierarchy of Needs) |
| Arousal Theory | an organism's performance can be increased if it is aroused in some sort of way |
| General Adaptation Syndrome | The human body's general response to stress: Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion |
| Incentives | Incentives are those stimuli in the environment, both positive or negative, that motivate our behavior. |
| Approach-Approach Conflict | Conflict whereby one must choose between two desirable or attractive goals. |
| Instincts | an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli |
| Achievement Motivation | an individuals need to meet realistic goals, receive feedback and experience a sense of accomplishment. |
| Obesity | The state of being overweight |
| Intrinsic Motivators | The motivation people get due to personal satisfaction from completing the task |
| Approach-Avoidance Conflict | psychological conflict that results when a goal is both desirable and undesirable |
| Bulimia | a disorder that causes people to eat a lot of food that are high in calories and then vomit it or use laxatives to lose weight. |
| Extrinsic Motivators | Things in our environment that make you want to do something. |
| Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict | psychological conflict that results when a choice must be made between two undesirable alternatives |
| Anorexia | a very serious, pathological loss of appetite and self induced limiting of food intake. |
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