Motivation and Hunger (Unit 9) Flashcards
A psychological process that initiates, sustains, directs, and terminates actions:
Motivation
Three types of motivation:
- Biological/Primary Motive
- Stimulus
- Learned
Based on biological needs for survival:
Biological Motive
Our need for information, learning, and stimulation:
Stimulus Motivation
Learned needs, drives, goals:
Learned Motivation
_____ or _____ motivation:
Extrinsic; Intrinsic
Hopelesness or passive resignation that is learned when unable to avoid repeated aversive event:
Learned Helplessness
Tendency to do things that contribute to failure then use these things as excuses for failure in performance, activities, or achieving goals:
Self-Handicapping Behaviors
The complex, inherited behavior patterns characteristic of a species:
Instinct
Behaviors in response to stimuli that once started, continue until completion:
Fixed Action Patterns
Natural selection passes on favorable characteristics:
Charles Darwin
Said instincts motivate sex and aggression:
Sigmund Freud
Ethologist who studied baby geese, came up with “imprinting”:
Konrad Lorenz
The attachment created with the first thing a newborn sees/feels after birth:
Imprinting
Lack of some biological essential:
Need
Energized emotional state that pushes a person to do something:
DRive
All need-drive behavioral explanations follow a ______ _______:
Familiar pattern
Drive Reduction Theory by:
Clark Hull
Need: _____
Drive: ______
Response/Behavior: ______
Goal: ____
- Hunger
- Push to eat
- Find food
- Satisfied/Homeostasis
Return to a state of homeostasis:
Goal
Actual behaviors that reduce the drive may be ______:
Learned
Incentive Theory by:
Kenneth Spence
Incentive Theory: ______ motivation: A ________ or _______ environmental stimulus that motivates behavior, pulling us towards a goal:
External; positive; negative
Proposes that people/animals are motivated to perform because they are trying to maintain optimal levels of physiological arousal:
Optimal Arousal Theory
People are motivated to behave so that they stay _______ aroused all the time:
Moderately
We perform most activities best when we are moderately aroused:
Yerkes-Dodson Law
When our arousal is ____, performance suffers (uninterested, inattentive):
Low
When our arousal is _____ our performance suffers (anxious, overwhelmed)
High
A difficult task is better completed with a ____ level of arousal:
Low
An easy task is better completed with a ____ level of arousal:
High
Self-Actualization Theory by:
Abraham Maslow