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Ch: 10 (Motivation and Emotion) Flashcards

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The force that moves people to behave, think, and feel the way they do. Motivated behavior is energized, directed, and sustained.

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Motivation

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Which approach has the role of instincts and unlearned behaviors

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Evolutionary approach

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An innate (unlearned), biological pattern of behavior that is assumed to be universal throughout a species - survival, attachment, and curiosity

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Instinct

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Unlearned Motivation

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Drive reductive theory

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An unaroused state that occurs because of a physiological need. (food, water, and sleep)

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Drive

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A deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate or reduce the deprivation

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Need

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As a drive becomes stronger, we are motivated to reduce it

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Theory

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The body’s tendency to maintain an equilibrium or steady state

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Goal - Homeostasis

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A theory that has an optimum level of arousal that motivates behavior

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Optimum Arousal Theory

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Level of being alert and engaged

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arousal

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States that performance is best under conditions of moderate arousal than either low or high arousal

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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Our basic needs must be satisfied before our higher needs can be

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs

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The sequence of Hierarchy of Needs

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1) Physiological
2) Safety
3) Love and belongingness
4) Esteem
5) Self-Actualization

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The motivation to develop one’s full potential as a human being; the highest and most elusive of Maslow’s needs

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Self-actualization

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Motivation based on internal factors

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Motivation based on external factors

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Extrinsic motivation

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A theory of motivation that asserts there are three basic, organismic needs that are innate and exist in every person

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Self-Determination Theory

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Three basic organismic needs

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Competence, autonomy, and relatedness

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Met when we are able to bring about a desirable outcome

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Competence

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Our sense that we are in control of our own lives (Self-motivation)

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Autonomy

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The need to engage in warm relations with other people

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Relatedness

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The process by which one effortfully controls behavior to pursue important objectives, getting feedback about progress in goal pursuits

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Self-Regulation

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Motivation is tied to this physiological need, basic need and powerful motivator

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Hunger

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__% of Americans are overweights (__% are obese)

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72% and 40%

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The weight maintained when one makes no effort to gain or lose weight

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Set point

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An eating disorder that involved the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation

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Anorexia Nervosa

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An eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows the bing-and-purge eating pattern

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Bulimia Nervose

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An eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating more food in a short period of time than most people would eat during which the person feels a lack of control over eating

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Binge Eating Disorder

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Mental disorder, which involves a disturbed body image. It is generally associated with those who are extremely critical of their physique or self-image, despite the fact, there may be no noticeable disfigurement or defect

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

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Subtype of BDD, in which one becomes obsessed with the idea that he or she is not muscular enough when in fact they are considered to be muscular

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Muscular Dysmorphia

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Emotions is another word for…

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Affect

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Feeling or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience; and behavioral expression

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Emotion

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A machine that monitors the change in the body thought to be influenced by emotional states

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Polygraph

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How accurate are polygraph tests?

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50%

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The release of anger or aggressive energy by directly or vicariously engaging in anger or aggression; behaving angrily or watching others behave angrily reduces subsequent anger

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Catharsis

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The idea is that facial expressions can influence emotions as well as reflect them

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Facial Feedback Hypothesis

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What are the 6 universal emotions?

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Happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, surprise, anger

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Cues that may indicate someone is lying…

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Blink less, higher voice, restrained movement, speech pauses, and micro expressions

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