motivation and emotion Flashcards

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drives

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internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension

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homeostasis

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a state of physiological equilibrium or stability

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drive reduction

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when individuals experience a drive, they’re motivated to pursue actions that will lead to drive reduction

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incentive

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external goal that has capacity to motivate behavior

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incentive values of food

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palatability, quantity available, variety, presence of others

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human sexual response phases

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excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasm phase, resolution phase

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parental investment

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refers to what each sex has to invest, in terms of time, energy, survival rate, and forgone opportunities, to produce and nurture offspring

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achievement motive

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need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence

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emotion

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involves:

1) a subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by
2) bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by
3) characteristic overt expressions (the behavioral component)

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affective forecasting

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efforts to predict one’s emotional reactions to future events
people can predict positive vs negative, but not durability or intensity

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subjective wellbeing

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individuals’ personal perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction

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hedonic adaption

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occurs when the mental scale that people use to judge the pleasantness/unpleasantness of their experiences shifts so that their neutral point, or baseline for comparison, changes

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motivation

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goal directed behavior

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