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Exam 3 Psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Motivation | a need/desire energies & directs behavior |
| Drive Reduction theory | our motivation rise from uncomfortable arousal -> need-fulfillment actions |
| Optimal Arousal Theory | thrive, you may live your best life, homeostasis & set points |
| Homeostasis | any motivation to seen out back to their set pt. |
| Yerkes-Dodson Curve | special type of optimal arousal theory w/ anxiety |
| Arousal | stress, anger, & adrenaline |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | Self actualization, Self-esteem, Belong & love, Safety (security, protection, threats-free) & Physiological (food, water, warmth, oxygen, & sleep) |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | inaccurate needs bc "hunger-strike" |
| Rejection Sensitivity | People become hyper attentive to social info following rejection; ex: interest in other's lives |
| Reduction in intelligence | Intrusive thoughts |
| Emotional numbers | PS report "feeling nothingness", initial response, social pain theory |
| Social Pain theory | severe pain & endorphins & numbness help move on |
| Rejection cognitive consequences | rejection sensitivity, reduction in intelligence, & emotional numbness |
| Hunger/Thirsts needs | mobilizes phycological state, motivated cognition (strong motivations: change the way we think & perceived the world; ex: semi starved men, grocery stores, & overestimate eating) |
| Self-determination theory | people have need to have intrinsic motivation in order to thrive |
| extrinsic | motivation t work on task to get something extra, ex: money, grades, not get punished, & compliment |
| Over justification effect | have too much extrinsic motivation, it overrides intrinsic |
| Intrinsic motivation | self-control autonomy, feel confident/effective/do-able; feel connect w/ others who have similar passion |
| Social pain theory | The brain processes social pain as if it was physical pain; rejection feel like physical pain |