Motivation And Emotion Flashcards
Affective experiences that motivate organisms to fulfill goals that are generally beneficial to their survival and reproduction
Drive states
The tendency of an organism to maintain a stable state across all the different physiological systems in the body
Homeostasis
An ideal level that the system being regulated must be monitored and compared to
Homeostatic set point
A physical sexual posture in females that serves an an invitation to mate
Lordosis
A neuropsychological measure of an outcomes affective importance to an organism
Reward value
A region in the anterior hypothalamus involved in generating and regulating male sexual behaviour
Preoptic area
A state of being full to satisfaction and no longer desiring to take on more
Satiation
An experiential, physiological, and behavioural response to a personally meaningful stimulus
Emotion
The degree to which emotional responses (subjective experience, behaviour, physiology etc) converge with one another
Emotion coherence
The degree to which emotions vary or change in intensity over time
Emotion fluctuation
The experience of mental and physical health and the absence of disorder
Well-being
An emotional process; includes moods, subjective feelings, and discrete emotions
Affect
Two almond shaped structures located in the medial temporal lobes of the brain
Amygdala
Region of the basal forebrain located in front of the preoptic region
Nucleus accumbens
Region of the frontal lobes located above the eye sockets
Orbital frontal cortex
