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Motivation & Emotion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drive-Reduction Theory | This is when motivated behavior is stopped by an outside force to maintain balance |
| Instinct Theory | All motivation is from biological urges |
| Hierarchy of Needs | Maslow’s needs where biological needs must be met before greater self-actualization needs |
| Set Point | The desired and constant value of something that people desire to be at |
| Metabolic Rate | The use of energy during a given period |
| Sexual Response Cycle | 4 stage cycle of sexual responses (arousal, plateau, orgasmic, resolution) |
| Refractory Period | The time after an orgasm in which another cannot occur |
| Estrogen | Main female sex hormone |
| Testosterone | Main male sex hormone |
| Achievement Motivation | The desire to perform well to be successful |
| Task Leadership | This is trying to achieve the duties of a given task at all needs possible |
| Industrial Organizational Psychology | This studies human behavior in work behavior to stop work problems |
| Social Leadership | How others influence others in a specific social group or context |
| Intrinsic Motivation | The idea to do something because you enjoy doing that thing itself |
| Extrinsic Motivation | doing something because of the reward you get from doing it |
| Ventromedial Hypothalamus | This suppresses hunger |
| Lateral Hypothalamus | This is what directs feelings of hunger |
| Homeostasis | A state of balance in the body |
| Insulin | This is what regulates blood sugar in the body |
| Abraham Maslow | Humanist psychologist that made the hierarchy of needs |
| Orexin | chemical in the body that causes food cravings |
| PYY Hormone | short-term appetite regulator |
| Leptin | The hormone that controls the full feeling in the body |
| Ghrelin | stimulates appetite and growth hormones |
| Emotion | complex reaction pattern in reaction to stimuli determined by the significance of the event |
| James-Lange Theory | the physical changes in the body happen before emotion occurs |
| Cannon-Bard Theory | That physical and emotional responses occur in tandem |
| Two-Factor Theory | the idea that 2 factors determine workplace attitude leading to motivation and satisfactory or dissatisfaction |
| Physiological Change | adaptive alterations in the body from aging or a significant event |
| Catharsis | the discharge of previously repressed feelings from a traumatic event until the event is brought back into consciousness |
| Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon | doing a good event will cause us to feel good in turn |
| Adaptation Level Phenomenon | This is where the way you judge one thing is based on what you have previously experienced |
| Polygraph | a device that measures several physiological indicators of stress |
| Facial Feedback | making a facial expression associated with an emotion will make you feel the emotion |
| Stanley Schachter / Jerome Singer | these are the two people that developed two factor theories of emotion |