Motivations, Stress, Personality, Emotions Flashcards
Maslows Hierachy
Self-actualization
Esteem
Belonging
Safety Needs
Physiological needs
Instinct Theory
Certain behaviors are innate and due to evolutionary programming
Drive Reduction Theory
Behaviors motivated by the desire to reduce internal needs
Incentive Motivations
Behavior is motivated by the “pull” of external goals
Yerkes Dodson Law
We perform under the optimal level of arousal.
Hypothalamus
Regulates hunger
Lateral Hypothalamus
Sends hunger signal
Ventromental Hypothalamus
Send stop eating signals
Set Point
Weight range that your body in porgrammed at for optimal function.
Intrinsic
Internal motivation
Extrisic
External Motivation
Over justification Effect
When external rewards overpower take over the internal feeling.
Theory x
Assumes that workers are lazy and need strict guide.
Theory Y
Assumes that worker when given the freedom with demonstrate competitiveness, creativity and motivation.
Masters and Johnsons
Watch people having intercourse
Sexual cycle
- Excitement
- Plateau
- Orgasm
- Resolution (male only)
Ekman
6 Basic emotions
Happy, anger, sad, anger, surprised, disgust,
Display rules
How you express emotion can be regulated by social and cultural rules.
Common Sense theory
- Stimulus
- Emotion
- Body reacts
James Lange
- Stimulus
- Body reacts
- Emotion
Cannon Bard
- Stimulus
- Body reacts 2. Emotion
Lazarus Theory
- Stimulus
- Thought
- Body reacts 3. Emotion
Schachter 2 Factor theory
- Stimulus
- Body reacts 2. Thought
- Emotion
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
Early attempt to quantify the amount of stress experienced by people in a wide range of situations
By: Thomas Holmes and Richard Roche
General Adaption Syndrome
- Alarm
- Resistance
- Exhastion
Type A
- Hostility
- Time urgency
- Competitiveness
Approach - Approach
2 desirable choices
Pizza or tacos
Avoidance - Avoidance
2 Undesirable choices
homework or fail
Approach - Avoidance
Desirable and Undesirable choice
Dream job, but pays less
Multiple Approach Avoidence
Multiple choices each with pros and cons
Towson University vs. Stevenson Vs. McDaniel
Id
Basic Urges
Anger and sex drive
Ego
The face the world sees, Goes between ID and SUperego