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Chapter 8 Flashcards

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Howard Gardner

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Found that people have multiple intelligence (good at sports and smart)

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Heritability

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Genetic

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Persistence

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Keep doing it over and over again

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Intensity

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The level of how motivated we are

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William McDougall & William James

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Instinct theory daddies

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Homeostasis

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Home base, the body’s most relaxed state

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Drive Theory

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Behavior is motivated by desire or its biological

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Incentive Theories

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Posits behavior is motivated by “pull” of external goals

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Drive & Incentive combined =

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Broad range of behavioral motivations

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