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Motivation Theories

TermDefinition
Motivation A psychological process that directs and maintains your behavior toward a goal
Motives Desires that energizes your behavior
Social motives Learned motives learned from growing up in a certain society/culture
Emotion A psychological feeling that involves a mixture of physiological arousal, conscious experience and overt behavior
Instincts Complex, inherited behavior patterns characteristic of a species
Ethologist Animal behaviorist
Critical period Soon after birth by which an animal form social attachments
Imprinting Forming a social attachment to the first moving object they see or hear
Sociobiology Relating social behaviors to evolutionary biology
Drive reduction theory Behavior is motivated by the need to reduce drives such as hunger, thirst, or sex
Need A motivated state caused by a physiological deficit
Drive A state of psychological tension induced by a need, which motivates us
Homeostasis Body's tendency to stay in balance
Metabolism The sum total of all chemical processes in our bodies necessary to keep us alive
Primary motives Hurger, thirst, pain, sex
Secondary motives Achievement, affiliation, autonomy, curiosity, power, play
Incentive A positive/negative environmental stimulus that motivated behavior
Arousal Level of alertness, wakefulness and activation cause by activity in the central nervous system
Yerkes-Doddon rule We usually perform activities best when moderately aroused (not lacking and not too much)
Abraham Maslow Categorized and arranged need in order of priority
Self-actualization Achievement of all our potentials and transcendence
Transcendence Spiritual fulfillment
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