Unit 7 Motivation, Emotion, and Personality Flashcards
A need or desire to change behavior
Motivation
Unlearned patterns of behaviors that humans and animals engage, without thinking, evolutionary
Instinct
Promised reward that will motivate us
Incentive
Motivation from within (inside); Interested in learning
Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation from outside (external); college credit
Extrinsic Motivation
Lose intrinsic b/c of extrinsic (doing more for reward than interest)
Overjustification Effect
Belief in your own success
Self-Efficacy
Motivated to be successful
Achievement Motivation
Motivated to belong in the group
Affiliation Motivation
Fill the need to avoid discomfort
Drive Reduction Theory
Alertness, wakefulness
Arousal
Appropriate levels of arousal; not too easy and not too hard
Yerkes-Dodson Law
Our needs; being best version of yourself
Marlow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Motivated to eat to return homeostasis
Hunger Motivation
“Normal” body weight for an individual that stays constant; less impact on weight
Set Point Theory
Feel hungry; Lat makes you fat
Lateral Hypothalamus
Feel full
Ventromedial Hypothalamus
Calories in = calories used for energy
Too few = Lathargic
Too much = Antsy
Basal Metabolic Rate
% of a person’s body fat
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Normal human interest in sexual activities
Sexual Motivation
4 stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson; 1. Excitement, 2. Plateau, 3. Orgasm, 4. Resolution
Sexual Response Cycle
Motivation to belong
Social Motivation
Pushing us from isolation; not wanting to be isolated
Social Exclusion
Pioneering sex researcher, gained his data mostly through interviews
Alfred Kinsey
Hierarchy of Needs
Abraham Maslow
Internal body balance
Homeostasis
Something that must be filled
Need
Food, water, breathing, etc.
Primary Drive
Learned, extrinsic; support, kind words
Secondary Drive
- Body response > 2. Emotion
James Lange
Response + Emotion
Cannon Bard
- Response + cognitive label > 2. Emotion
Schachter Two Factor
Universal facial expressions = believed to be from nature (genes)
Paul Ekman
Cultural facial/expresses emotions
Carol Izard
Your facial expressions change your emotional state
Facial Feedback Hypothesis
Culturally expressed emotions; good in some countries, not in others
Display Rule
How we perceive/respond to something threatening
Stress