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Motivation and Hunger (Unit 9) Flashcards

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A psychological process that initiates, sustains, directs, and terminates actions:

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Motivation

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Three types of motivation:

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  1. Biological/Primary Motive
  2. Stimulus
  3. Learned
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Based on biological needs for survival:

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Biological Motive

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Our need for information, learning, and stimulation:

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Stimulus Motivation

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Learned needs, drives, goals:

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Learned Motivation

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_____ or _____ motivation:

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Extrinsic; Intrinsic

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Hopelesness or passive resignation that is learned when unable to avoid repeated aversive event:

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Learned Helplessness

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Tendency to do things that contribute to failure then use these things as excuses for failure in performance, activities, or achieving goals:

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Self-Handicapping Behaviors

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The complex, inherited behavior patterns characteristic of a species:

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Instinct

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

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Fixed Action Patterns

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Natural selection passes on favorable characteristics:

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Charles Darwin

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Said instincts motivate sex and aggression:

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Sigmund Freud

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Ethologist who studied baby geese, came up with “imprinting”:

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Konrad Lorenz

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The attachment created with the first thing a newborn sees/feels after birth:

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Imprinting

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Lack of some biological essential:

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Need

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Energized emotional state that pushes a person to do something:

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DRive

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17
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All need-drive behavioral explanations follow a ______ _______:

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Familiar pattern

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18
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Drive Reduction Theory by:

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Clark Hull

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19
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Need: _____
Drive: ______
Response/Behavior: ______
Goal: ____

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  1. Hunger
  2. Push to eat
  3. Find food
  4. Satisfied/Homeostasis
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Return to a state of homeostasis:

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Goal

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21
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Actual behaviors that reduce the drive may be ______:

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Learned

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Incentive Theory by:

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Kenneth Spence

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Incentive Theory: ______ motivation: A ________ or _______ environmental stimulus that motivates behavior, pulling us towards a goal:

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External; positive; negative

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24
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Proposes that people/animals are motivated to perform because they are trying to maintain optimal levels of physiological arousal:

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Optimal Arousal Theory

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People are motivated to behave so that they stay _______ aroused all the time:

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Moderately

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We perform most activities best when we are moderately aroused:

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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When our arousal is ____, performance suffers (uninterested, inattentive):

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Low

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28
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When our arousal is _____ our performance suffers (anxious, overwhelmed)

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High

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29
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A difficult task is better completed with a ____ level of arousal:

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Low

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30
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An easy task is better completed with a ____ level of arousal:

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High

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31
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Self-Actualization Theory by:

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Abraham Maslow

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32
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Listed our priorities into a pyramid to provide a framework for thinking about motivation:

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Self-Actualization Theory

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1 on Pyramid:

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Physiological Needs

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2 on Pyramid:

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Safety Needs

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3 on Pyramid:

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Belongingness and Love Needs

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4 on Pyramid:

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Esteem Needs

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5 on Pyramid:

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Self-Actualization Needs

38
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The Self-Actualization Theory is not _______ fixed:

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Universally

39
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Who studied effects of lesions on the hypothalamus:

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Olds and Milner

40
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What is the “pleasure center” for motives like eating, drining, and sex?

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The hypothalamus

41
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Lateral (sides of) hypothalamus ____ behavior:

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Excites

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Ventromedial (lower middle) hypothalamus ____ behavior:

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Inhibits

43
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Glucose is a form of ____ that comes from food and circulates in the blood and provides a major source of ____:

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Sugar; energy

44
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A hormone released by the pancreas and must be present for cells to use glucose. It regulates the level of glucose in the blood:

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Insulin

45
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High insulin + low blood glucose =

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Hunger

46
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Levels are monitored by neurons in the ____, liver, and intestines; they send signals to the brain

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Stomach

47
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Low glucose in the blood which will increase body temp, heart rate and cause shakiness, childs, and irritable mood:

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Hypoglycemic

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Glucose stays in blood and can’t move to cells:

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Diabetes

49
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Genetic; Can produce enough insulin:

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Type 1 Diabetes

50
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Body unable to use insulin (90% of population):

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Type 2 Diabetes

51
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Key control center for motivated behavior:

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Hypothalamus

52
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Sides of hypothalamus that trigger hunger:

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Later

53
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Sides of hypothalamus that trigger hunger:

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Lateral Hypothalamus

54
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Reduction of blood glucose stimulates _____ _____ in the lateral hypothalamus which leads one to eat ravenously:

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Orexin Production

55
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A hormone released in the stomach when you need to eat. It carries the hunger singla to the LH:

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Ghrelin

56
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The lower middle part that regulates fullness:

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Ventromedial Hypothalamus

57
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This receives information from satiety hormones Leptin and PYY:

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Ventromedial Hypothalamus

58
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This is secreted by fat cells and reaches the VH to stop:

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Leptin

59
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People with _____ leptin levels overeat, which can lead to obesity:

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Low

60
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Orexin increases and hunger _____:

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Increases

61
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Ghrelin increases and hunger _____:

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Increases

62
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Insulin increases and hunger ______:

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Increases

63
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Leptin increases and hunger _____:

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Decreases

64
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PYY increases and hunger ____:

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Decreases

65
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The part of the hypothalamus that regulates eating behavior due to stimulation/inhibition of neurotransmitters:

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Paraventricular Nucleus

66
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_____ can lead to a sugar high:

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Carbs

67
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______ increases desire for cards:

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Epinephrine

68
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Some foods trigger the release of ____, leading to a feeling of pleasure:

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Serotonin

69
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Weight range in which the body performs optimally and the person stays without any effect:

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Set Point

70
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Set point is influenced by the person’s _____ __________ ____:

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Basil Metabolic Rate

71
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______ influeces eating:

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Learning

72
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Food is associated with ________:

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Environments

73
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____ motivates eating behaviors; other tastes are _____:

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Culture; Conditioned

74
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Life threatening disorder that involves intense fear of weight gain, distorted perception of weight/body shape, and persistent restriction of caloric intake leading to extreme weight loss and damage to physical health:

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Anorexia Nervosa

75
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Anorexia usually develops in ________; more ____ (1 out of 10):

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Adolescence; Females

76
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Marked by repeated episodes of secretive binging followed by purging:

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Bulimia Nervosa

77
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_____ of those with anorexia also display binge-purge depression symptoms of bulimia:

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Half

78
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A disorder characterizd by being excessively overweight:

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Obesity

79
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Obesity can be genetic, with a link to:

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Chromosome 15

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