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Motivation and Emotion

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is all the processes that initiate, direct, and sustain behavior   Motivation  
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is the need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal   Motive  
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Taking the first steps toward a goal   Activation  
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Continuing to work toward a goal despite encountering obstacles   Persistence  
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The energy and attention applied to achieve a goal   Intensity  
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Desire to perform an act because it is satisfying or pleasurable in and of itself   Intrinsic Motivation  
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Desire to perform an act to gain an external reward or avoid an undesirable consequence   Extrinsic Motivation  
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Fixed behavior patterns characteristic of every member of a species   Instincts  
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According to ? a biological need creates an unpleasant internal state, called a drive, and the person or organism is motivated to reduce it.   Clark Hull  
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Natural tendency of the body to maintain a balanced internal state   Homeostasis  
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A state of alertness and mental and physical activation   Arousal  
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When arousal is too low, ? motivate organisms to increase stimulation   Stimulus motives  
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States that task performance is best when arousal level is appropriate to task difficulty Higher arousal for simple tasks Moderate arousal for moderate tasks Low arousal for difficult tasks   Yerkes-Dodson Law  
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State of discomfort when there is conflict between a belief and behavior We strive to reduce this dissonance   Cognitive dissonance  
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Abraham Maslow proposed that human needs are hierarchical Humans are motivated by their lowest unmet need   Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs  
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Perceive reality accurately Believe they have a mission to accomplish Devote their lives to some larger good Frequently have peak experiences of deep meaning, insight, and harmony with the universe   Self-actualizers  
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Motive (such as the needs for affiliation and achievement) that is acquired through experience and interaction with others   Social Motives  
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A series of pictures of ambiguous situations Person taking the test is asked to create a story about each picture The stories are presumed to reveal the test taker’s needs   Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)  
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the motive “to accomplish something difficult… to overcome obstacles and attain a high standard. To excel one’s self. To rival and surpass others. To increase self-regard by the successful exercise of talent”   Need for achievement (n ACH)  
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The ? of emotion states the sequence of events in emotional responding as : Stimulus Emotion Physiological changes   Commonsense view  
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Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli   James-Lange Theory of Emotion  
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Emotion-arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger: Physiological responses Subjective experience of emotion   Cannon- Bard Theory of emotion  
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suggests that two things must happen for a person to feel an emotion There must be physiological arousal There must be a cognitive interpretation of the arousal, so the person can label it as a specific emotion   The Schachter-Singer two-factor theory  
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first studied the relationship between emotions and facial expressions   Charles Darwin  
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are unlearned motives that serve to satisfy biological needs, states of tension or arousal that arise from a biological need and are unlearned.   Primary drives  
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A measure of weight relative to height   Body Mass Index  
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Heredity is a cause of variations in BMI Genes influence ? and the number of fat cells in the body   Metabolic rate  
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What percent of adults in the US are overweight and obese?   1/3  
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What percent of children in the US are obese?   10%  
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is an eating disorder characterized by overwhelming, irrational fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, compulsive dieting to the point of starvation, and excessive weight loss   Anorexia nervosa  
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is an eating disorder characterized by repeated and uncontrolled episodes of binge eating   Bulimia nervosa  
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