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1st theme of Motivation: motivation benefits functioning and adaption

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This allows for coping successfully with life’s inevitable, changing and often unpredictable demands

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2nd theme of motivation: Motivation directs attention.

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Multiple things in our environment are demanding our attention at any given moment.

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3rd theme of motivation: Motivation is an “intervening” variable.

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Motivational states explain why the environmental cause affects the outcome

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4th theme of motivation: types of motivation exist

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Intrinsic vs. extrinsic
Mastery vs. performance
Motivation to approach success vs. motivation to avoid failure

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5th theme of motivation: We are not always consciously aware of the motivational basis of our behavior

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When we are in a good mood we are more likely to help a stranger in need than people in neutral moods.

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Define ‘Need’

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A condition within the person that is necessary for the maintenance of life and nurturance of growth, and well being.

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Physiological Need

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Biological condition within the organism. Regulates bodily well-being
Examples: thirst, hunger, sleep

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Psychological Need

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Inherent (inborn) psychological process
Promotes personal growth, social development
Examples: autonomy, competence, relatedness

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Social Needs

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Developmentally acquired psychological process

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Psychological drive

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Conscious manifestation of an underlying unconscious physiological need

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Homeostasis

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The body’s tendency to maintain a stable internal state in a changing environment

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Intraorgasmic mechanisms

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Include all the biological regulatory systems within the person that act in concert to activate, maintain, and terminate the biological needs that underlie drive

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Extraorgasmic mechanisms

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Include all environmental influences that play a part in activating, maintaining and terminating psychological drive

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Deficiency Needs

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When in a state if deprivation, an emergency-like need to quiet the deficit is activated

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Growth Needs

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Growth needs gently guide behavior toward a path of growth and well-being

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Prader-Willi syndrome

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Genetic disorder related to excessive eating. Related to detention of chromosome 15 passed down by father. Hypothalamus plays crucial role regulating hunger and satiety

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Cortical Brain

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Involved in: setting goals, making plans, forming strategies & self control, resisting temptation, decision making

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Subcritical brain

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Functions at unconscious automatic level
Hunger, thirst
Motivation and emotion are typically reactive events that just happen to the person

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Bidirectional Relationship

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Between subcritical and cortical brain gives insight to many of our behaviors

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Amygdala

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Detects, responds and learns about threatening events
Also detects, responds to and learns about rewarding properties of objects and events

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Involved in forming intentions, making plans, setting goals and regulation emotions

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Dopamine

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Plays important role in motivation

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Ventral Tegmental Area VTA

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Where dopamine is manufactured and then released to NA, PFC, OFC

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Nucleus Assumbens NA

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Translate the experience of reward into motivational force, approach behavior

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Prefrontal cortex PFC

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Involved in the subjective experience of pleasure

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Orbitofrontal Cortex OFC

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Stores and processes reward-related value of objects/events to formulate preferences and make choices between options

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Basal Ganglia

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Inhibits unwanted actions/movements

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Insular Cortex (insula)

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Beneath cerebral cortex, becomes aware of changes in bodily states
How we’re experiencing our body in the moment
Disgust, empathy, intrinsic motivation

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Fmri

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Detects changes in brain activity as active brain areas are fueled by glucose and oxygen

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What does the cortical region of the brain includes:

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Bulges and grooves of the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes

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What does the limbic system include?

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Includes the small nuclei that make up the anatomical core or center of the brain

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What type of motivations in the cortical area are associated with?

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Cognitively rich motivations, such as goals, plans, strategies, values and beliefs about the self

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Reticular formation plays a key role in

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Arousal, alertness, and the process of awakening the brain to process incoming sensory information

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Primary function of the amygdala is to automatically detect, learn about and respond to:

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Emotionally significant and aversive events.
Detects environmental threat

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