Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Motivation
Psychology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abraham Maslow | a Humanist, proposed a hierarchy of needs that applies to all people |
| Affect | overall emotional state |
| Belongingness needs | met through satisfactory relationships, people with whom individuals interact, acceptance by others, people can venture out and seek relationships |
| Cannon-Bard theory | body=emotion, regulated by hypothalamus |
| Charles Darwin | ? |
| Drive | An aroused state of psychological tension that typically arises from a need, motivates the organism to act in ways that will reduce the tension |
| Drive reduction theory | learn habits based on satisfying a biological drive. |
| Emotion | subjective feeling produced by stimuli with significance |
| Emotion Contagion | the phenomenon of having one person's emotions and related behaviors directly trigger similar emotions and behaviors in other people |
| Emotional Intelligence | ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others |
| Esteem needs | fourth stage, the need for respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence, basis for the human desire we all have to be accepted and valued by others |
| Extrinsic motivation | engage in an activity to obtain some sort of external reward |
| Facial feedback | physical expression we make sends messages to our brain that actually alter our mood |
| Fear of failure | when we allow that fear to stop us doing the things that can move us forward to achieve our goals |
| Fear of success | motivation to actually AVOID achievement |
| Fundamental needs | person’s drive for physiological needs and safety |
| Hierarchy needs | the needs that motivate human behavior |
| Homeostasis | keeping the body at a constant state |
| Humanism | stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems. |
| Hunger drive | Lateral hypothalamus –tells us when it is time to eat·Ventromedial hypothalamus –tells us when to stop eating |
| Incentive theory | motivated to act a certain way because of a reward |
| Innate | genetically programmed from birth |
| Instinct theory | driven by inborn biological tendencies |
| Intrinsic motivation | perform an activity because it is internally pleasing to us |
| James-Lange motivation | emotions stem from the perception of bodily reactions |
| Lateral hypothalamus | tells us when it is time to eat |
| Matina Horner | fear of success |
| Mirror Neuron | activate when we see someone else perform a specific task |
| Motivation | refers to how we react towards a certain goal |
| Need | lack of something desirable or useful. |
| Need for achievement | like moderately challenging tasks and receiving a lot of feedback |
| Need for intimacy | enjoying the company of others and spending more time thinking about relationships |
| Need for power | argue more, take more risks, and own more symbols of prestige |
| Obese | weighs over 30% of ideal weight |
| Opponent-process theory | regulated by sympathetic and parasympathetic, extreme levels of emotion produce opposite response to maintain homeostasis |
| Overjustification effect | Extrinsic motivation can also lower or completely remove intrinsic pleasure on a task |
| Overweight | 20% over ideal weight |
| Paul Ekman | Papua New Guinea, found that the Fores exhibit the same emotional responses as all other cultures, developed Facial Action Coding System (FACS), found that 80 muscles in the face were involved in the true expression of emotions,10-15% can fake emotion |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL NEEDS | deal with the maintenance of the human body. This lowest category includes the most basic needs that are vital to survival, such as the need for water, air, food, and sleep |
| Psychological needs | include love, belongingness, and self esteem |
| Psychosocial hunger factors | caused by a desire to eat either out of habit, because you see good food around you, because you are emotional or upset, or because it tastes good and is “fun.” |
| Safety needs | need for security and protection |
| SCHACHTER-SINGER EXPERIMENT | body+mind to emotion |
| Self-actualization | developing into one’s full potential. |
| Set-point | day-to-day weight that our body strives to keep to maintain homeostasis. |
| Social motive | such as need for achievement, need for power, and need for intimacy. |
| TAT | used to access social motives, subjects are shown pictures of 20 scenes and must make up a story for each. |
| Token economy | form of behavior modification designed to increase desirable behavior and decrease undesirable behavior with the use of |
| VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS | tells us when to stop eating |
| William James | said that humans have instincts such as cleanliness, curiosity, sociability, and parental love |
Created by:
nailea89326
Popular Psychology sets