CCP Intro To Psychology Chapter 9 Flashcards
The force that moves people to behave, think, and feel the way they do.
Motivation
An innate (unlearned) biological pattern of behavior that is assumed to be universal throughout a species.
Instinct
the idea that all motivation comes from biological needs
Drive Reduction Theory
A deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate or reduce the deprivation.
Need
An aroused state that occurs because of a physiological need.
Drive
The body’s tendency to maintain an equilibrium, or steady state.
Homeostasis
The body’s tendency to maintain an equilibrium, or steady state.
Optimum Arousal Theory
performance is best under conditions of moderate rather than high or low arousal
Yerkes-Dodson Theory
the direction of a persons erotic attraction
Sexual Orientation
A person’s sexual attractions do not depend on the biological sex, gender, or gender identity of others.
Pansexual
A person experiences a lack of sexual attraction to others and may feel no sexual orientation.
Asexual
LGBT is an initialism that stands for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
LGBT
Maslow’s theory that human needs must be satisfied in the following sequence: physiological needs, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization.
Hierarchy of needs
The motivation to develop one’s full potential as a human being—the highest and most elusive of Maslow’s proposed needs.
Self-actualization
Deci and Ryan’s theory asserting that all humans have three basic, innate organismic needs: competence, relatedness, and autonomy.
Self-determination theory
the sense that we are in control of our own life
Autonomy
Motivation based on internal factors such as organismic needs (competence, relatedness, and autonomy), as well as curiosity, challenge, and fun.
Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation that involves external incentives such as rewards and punishments.
Extrinsic Motivation
The process by which an organism effortfully controls its behavior in order to pursue important objectives.
Self-regulation
Feeling, or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience and behavioral expression
Emotion
The theory that emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment.
James-Lange theory
The proposition that emotion and physiological reactions occur simultaneously.
Cannon-Bard theory
Schachter and Singer’s theory that emotion is determined by two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive labeling.
Two-factor theory of emotion
The idea that facial expressions can influence emotions and reflect them.
Facial feedback hypothesis
