Ch. 10 - Motivation and Emotion Flashcards
Achievement motive
The need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence.
Affective forecasting
A person’s efforts to predict his or her emotional reactions to future events.
Bisexuals
Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of either sex.
Body mass index (BMI)
Weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in meters) squared (kg/m^2).
Display rules
Cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions.
Drive
An internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tension.
Emotion
A subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component).
Galvanic skin response (GSR)
An increase in the electrical conductivity of the skin that occurs when sweat glands increase their activity.
Hedonic adaptation
An effect that occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness-unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, changes.
Heterosexuals
Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the other sex.
Homeostasis
A state of physiological equilibrium or stability.
Homosexuals
Persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of the same sex.
Incentive
An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior
Lie detector
A device that records autonomic fluctuations while a subject is questioned, in an effort to determine whether the subject is telling the truth. See Polygraph.
Motivation
Goal-directed behavior.
