Finals: Motivation And Emotion Flashcards
An inherit d disposition to activate specific behavior patterns that are designed to reach certain goals
Instinct
The view that organisms learn to engage in behaviors that have the effect of reducing drives
Drive-reduction theory
Unlearned, or physiological drives
Primary drives
Drives acquired through experience or learned
Acquired drives
The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state
Homeostasis
Maslow hierarchy of needs
Self-actualization Esteem needs Love and belongingness Safety needs Physiological needs
Self-initiated striving to become what one is capable of being
Motive for reaching one’s full potential, for expressing one’s unique capabilities
Self-actualization
State of being satisfied in digestive tract
Satiety
A central area on the underside of the hypothalamus that appears to function as a stop-eating center
VMN (Ventromedial Nucleus)
Characterized by excessive eating
Hyperphagic
An area at the side of the hypothalamus that appears to function as a start-eating center
Lateral hypothalamus
Characterized by undereating
Aphagic
Persistent,gross disturbances in eating patterns
Eating disorders
Life-threatening eating disorder characterized by dramatic weight loss and a distorted body image
Anorexia nervosa
An eating disorder characterized by repeated cycles of binge eating and purging
Bulimia nervosa
a state of feeling that has cognitive, physiological, and behavioural components
emotion
branch of autonomic nervous system: energy utilization
sympathetic nervous system
branch of autonomic nervous system: energy conservation
parasympathetic nervous system
deals with positive emotions such as happiness and love, optimism and hope, and joy and sensual pleasures
positive psychology
argues that facial expressions affect our emotional state
facial-feedback hypothesis
:assumes emotions; w/ physiological reactions
James Lange
:understand the stimulus first before emotion
Walter Cannon
:stimulus and reaction simultaneously
Cannon-Bard Theory
:group of people has different emotions
Cognitive Appraisal
