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Motivation and Emotion Flashcards

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Motivation

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Motivation is the need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

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Instincts

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Unlearned behavior, common in species

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Drives

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The tendency to act in a way to restore a physiological balance in one’s life

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Drive Reduction Theory

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Drive-Reduction Theory- a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

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Yerkes-Dodson

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Created the Arousal Theory

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Arousal Theory

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the degree of mental arousal helps performance, but only to a certain point
Some perform at high brain levels, some at low levels

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Homeostasis

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Your body’s tendency to remain stable

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Desire to achieve/do something for one’s own sake

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Motivation caused by the desire for reward or fear of punishment

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Abraham Maslow

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Created the Hierarchy of Needs

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Hierarchy of Needs

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One must fill their hierarchy of needs in order. If one loses a need lower on the hierarchy, they will lose all of the hierarchies they had above it.

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Achievement motivation

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a desire for significant accomplishment

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How to self motivate

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Associate your high achievement with positive emotions.

Connect your achievement with your efforts.

Raise your expectations.

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How to motivate others

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Cultivate intrinsic motivation.
-praise effort, not ability

Attend to individual motives.
-who needs recognition or a sense of
accomplishment

Set specific, challenging goals.
-be clear and direct efforts

Choose an appropriate leadership style.
-goal-oriented or group-oriented

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Glucose

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form of sugar, major source of energy for body

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Insulin

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a hormone, that allows glucose to be processed. Insulin goes up, glucose goes down

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Leptin

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a protein produced by bloated fat cells, tells the body to “stop eating”

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Orexin

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a hunger-triggering hormone produced by the hypothalamus. Released when glucose drops

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Hypothalamus

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body’s “weight thermostat”

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Set Point

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weight point at which an adults body tends to hover around

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Internal factors of hunger

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brain and body functions

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external factors of hunger

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sight, sound, smell of food

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Anorexia Nervosa

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eating disorder
starving

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Bulimia Nervosa

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eating disorder
stuffing and purging

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Basal Metabolic Rate

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Number of calories you burn as your body performs basic life-sustaining functions

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Henry Murry

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Neo Freudian-achievement motivation

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Task Leadership

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doing whatever is needed to complete the task

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Social Leadership

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focus on connection, collaboration, and communication

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Common Sense Theory

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Emotion is an arousing stimulus that leads to a conscious feeling (fear, anger) and a physiological response.

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James-Lange Theory

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n emotion-arousing stimulus in the environment triggers a physiological reaction.
Our awareness of the physiological reaction leads to our experience of an emotion.

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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An emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers both a physiological response and the experience of an emotion.

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Cognitive Appraisal

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One’s thoughts about a situation
How a person interprets a situation in the environment

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Two Factory Theory

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Emotions involve two factors:
A physiological arousal
A cognitive label of the arousal
Also called the Schachter-Singer Theory

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Robert Zajonc

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Suggested that not all emotions involve deliberate thinking
Therefore, cognition is not necessary for all emotions
Some emotions skip the thinking part of the brain

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Richard Lazarus

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Believed some emotions do not require conscious thought
However, there must be a minimum of unconscious thought.

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Autonomic Nervous System

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The division of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and muscles of the internal organs
Monitors the autonomic functions
Controls breathing, blood pressure, and digestive processes

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Sympathetic Nervous System

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The part of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body to deal with perceived threats
Fight or flight response

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Parasympathetic Nervous System

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The part of the autonomic nervous system that calms the body
Brings the body back down to a relaxed state

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Nonverbal Communication

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Communicating feelings without words: –Facial expressions
Tone of voice
Hand gestures
Also called “body language”

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Paul Ekman

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studied facial expressions

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