Motivation and emotion (class 1)

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

The driving force within individuals that impels them to action

i.e hunger thirst, sex, escape, money, power

Question 2

What produces emotion?

Answer 2

Produced by a state of arousal or tension, which exists as the result of an unfulfilled need

Individuals strive consciously and subconsciously to reduce the tension through behavior they anticipate will fulfill their needs and thus relieve the stress they feel

Question 3

What brain structure regulates basic biological needs and motivational systems?

Answer 3

The hypothalamus

Question 4

Motives

Answer 4

The needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel or drive people in certain directions

A stimulus that moves a person to behave in ways designed to accomplish a specific goal

Theoretical (cannot be observed or measure directly)

Question 5

Motives can be

Answer 5

1. Conscious vs unconscious
2. High vs Low urgency
3. Positive and negative
4. Intrinsic vs extrinsic
5. Rational vs Emotional

Question 6

Drive reduction theory

Answer 6

We are motivated to restore homeostasis when a drive emerges

Question 7

Homeostasis (and motivation)

Answer 7

Individuals are attempting to maintain a level of psychological homeostasis or equilibrium

Question 8

Push vs Pull theory

Answer 8

1. Internal states of tension push people in certain directions
2. External stimuli pull people in certain directions

Question 9

Arousal

Answer 9

The level of alertness, wakefulness and activation caused by activity in the CNS

Question 10

Yerkes-Dodson Law

Answer 10

We usually preform most activities best when we are moderately aroused

Challenge - Moderately low level
Easy - Moderately high level

Question 11

Evolutionary perspective

Answer 11

Social bonds were/are important for survival and reproduction

Question 12

Social connectedness

Answer 12

A good predictor of our overall health

Question 13

Loneliness

Answer 13

Elevates a person’s risk for having hypertension, a weaker immune system and high levels of stress hormones

Question 14

According to humanistic psychologists

Answer 14

Instinct and drive - reduction theories are too mechanical and fails to account for all human motivation

Question 15

Abraham maslow suggests (some people are…)

Answer 15

Some people are willing to tolerate pain, hunger, and other kinds of tension to achieve their artistic or personal goals

Question 16

Hierchary of needs

Answer 16

Needs explain the order of urgency

Explain range of human motivation

Lower-level motives must be satisfied before higher ones

Physiological needs lowest

Self-actualization needs highest