Chapter 11 - Motivation and Emotion

Question 1

Affiliation

Answer 1

The need to form attachments to other people for support, guidance, and protection.

Question 2

Amotivation

Answer 2

The state of being without motivation.

Question 3

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 3

Eating disorder in which individuals under-eat and have a distorted body image of being overweigth.

Question 4

Approach motivation

Answer 4

The desire to experience a positive outcome following a behaviour.

Question 5

Avoidance Motivation

Answer 5

The desire to avoid the experience of a negative outcome following a behaviour.

Question 6

Basic Emotions

Answer 6

A group of emotions preprogrammed into all humans regardless of culture.

Question 7

Binge Eating Disorder

Answer 7

Out-of-control eating o an unusually large amount of food in a single event, often multiple times per week, over several months or years.

Question 8

BMI

Answer 8

Weight to height ratio.

Question 9

Body Weight Set Point

Answer 9

A weight that individuals usually return to even after dieting or overeating.

Question 10

Bulimia Nervosa

Answer 10

Eating disorder in which individuals binge and then engage in purging-type behaviour. Puking.

Question 11

Cannon-Brad Theory of Emotion

Answer 11

A theory proposing that the subjective experience of emotion and the activation of the
sympathetic nervous system (that is, bodily arousal) occur simultaneously.

Question 12

Cognitive-Mediational Theory of Emotion

Answer 12

A theory proposing that cognitive interpretations, particularly appraisals, of events are
the keys to experiences of emotion.

Question 13

Conscious Motivation

Answer 13

Motivation that people are aware of and can verbalize.

Question 14

Emotion

Answer 14

An intrapersonal state that occurs in response to either an external or an internal event
and typically involves a physiological component, a cognitive component, and a
behavioural component.
emotion-focused coping
coping strategies focused on changing o

Question 15

Extrinsic Motivation

Answer 15

Engaging in a behaviour due to an influence of factor outside ourselves.

Question 16

Facial Efference

Answer 16

Sensory feedback from facial muscular activity.

Question 17

FaciAL Feedback Theory of Emotion

Answer 17

a theory proposing that subjective experiences of emotion are influenced by sensory
feedback from facial muscular activity, or facial efference.

Question 18

Mixed Mindset

Answer 18

A belief that talent is innate and that skill in a particular area is not determined by hard work and efforts

Question 19

Grit

Answer 19

Long-term perseverance towards a goal.

Question 20

Growth Mindset

Answer 20

A belief that hard work and effort can improve a person’s skill or talent in a particular
area.

Question 21

Hedonic Pricniple

Answer 21

The principle that we avoid painful experiences and approach pleasurable experiences.

Question 22

Homeostasis

Answer 22

Body maintains itself as a state of balance and equilibrium.

Question 23

Incetitives

Answer 23

External motives that directly indicate reward.

Question 24

Instincts

Answer 24

Inborn behaviour tendencies, activated by stimuli in our environment.

Question 25

Intrinsic Motivation

Answer 25

Engaging in a behaviour simply for the satisfaction that is part of doing it.

Question 26

James Lang Theory of Emotion

Answer 26

A theory proposing that felt emotions result from physiological changes, rather than being their cause.

Question 27

Lateral Hypothalimus

Answer 27

A region of the hypothalamus important in signalling thirst and hunger.

Question 28

Leptin

Answer 28

A protein produced by fat cells that is important for regulating the amount of food eaten over long periods of time

Question 29

Loss Aversion

Answer 29

Being motivated to avoid loss rather than to achieve a gain, even if potential loss and gain are of equal size.

Question 30

Motivation

Answer 30

Any internal process or coordination that directs behaviour.

Question 31

Motive

Answer 31

A need or a desire.

Question 32

Obesity

Answer 32

Overweight characterized as a body mass index of over 30.

Question 33

Schachter and Singer’s two-factor theory of emotion

Answer 33

Emotional state is a function of both psychological arousal and cognition.

Question 34

Self Determionation

Answer 34

Instinctive feelings of competence, relatedness, and autonomy that give purpose to life.

Question 35

Unconscious Motivation

Answer 35

Motivations that people are unaware of and cannot verbalize.

Question 36

Ventromedial region of the hypothalamus (VMH)

Answer 36

a region of the hypothalamus important in signalling satiety. (Fullness)

Question 37

Yerkes-Dodson law

Answer 37

Law stating that ideal performance on a task occurs when the arousal level is optimized to the difficulty level of the task