Motivation

Question 1

Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

Answer 1

Motivation

Question 2

Based on biological needs survival (hunger, pain, thirst)

Answer 2

Primary Motive

Question 3

Need for information, learning, and stimulation

Answer 3

Secondary Motive

Question 4

Learned needs, drives, goals

Answer 4

Learned Motive

Question 5

Complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unearned

Answer 5

Instinct

Question 6

Behaviors in response to stimuli that once started, continue to completion

Answer 6

Fixed Action Patterns

Question 7

Attempts to explain behavior as arising from a physiological need that creates a drive and motives to satisfy the need

Answer 7

Drive-Reduction Theory

Question 8

Internal deficiency

Answer 8

Need

Question 9

Energized emotional state that pushes the person to do something

Answer 9

Drive

Question 10

Body’s tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state

Answer 10

Homeostasis

Question 11

Positive/Negative environmental stimuli that motivates behavior

Answer 11

Arousal Theory

Question 12

More motivated to relax and will perform poorly task

Answer 12

Too High Arousal Level

Question 13

Performance suffers because of anxious or overwhelmed feelings

Answer 13

Too High Arousal Level

Question 14

More likely to seek something to stimulate and you will not do well on repetitive task due to lack of interest/motivation

Answer 14

Too Low Arousal Level

Question 15

Performance will suffer because inattentive or uninterested

Answer 15

Too Low Arousal Level

Question 16

Idea that people need moderate levels of arousal to complete a task successfully

Answer 16

Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal

Question 17

Human motives that are ranked from basic level to higher-level needs: can’t move on without satisfying need

Answer 17

Maslow Hierarchy of Needs