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Details Title Psych chapter 10 Description essentials of understanding psychology, robert feldman, chapter 10 Total Cards 23 Subject Psychology Created 10/19/2011

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Term Motivation	Definition The factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms
Term Instincts	Definition Inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned.
Term Drive-reduction approaches to motivation	Definition Theories suggesting that a lack of a basic biological requirement such as water produces a drive to obtain that requirement (in this case, the thirst drive).
Term Drive	Definition Motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior to fulfill a need.
Term Homeostasis	Definition The body’s tendency to maintain a steady internal state.
Term Arousal approaches to motivation	Definition The belief that we try to maintain certain levels of stimulation and activity increasing or reducing them as necessary.
Term Incentive approaches to motivation	Definition Theories suggesting that motivation stems from the desire to obtain valued external goals, or incentives.
Term Cognitive approaches to motivation	Definition Theories suggesting that motivation is a product of people’s thoughts, expectations, and goals – their cognitions.
Term Self-actualization	Definition A state of self-fulfillment in which people realize their highest potential in their own unique way.
Term Obesity	Definition Body weight that is more than 20% above the average weight for a person of a particular height.
Term Weight set point	Definition The particular level of weight that the body strives to maintain.
Term Metabolism	Definition The rate at which food is converted to energy and expended by the body.
Term Anorexia nervosa	Definition A severe eating disorder in which people may refuse to eat while denying that their behavior and appearance – which can become skeleton-like – are unusual.
Term Bulimia	Definition A disorder in which a person binges on large quantities of food, followed by efforts to purge the food through vomiting or other means.
Term Need for achievement	Definition A stable, learned characteristic in which a person obtains satisfaction by striving for and attaining a level of excellence.
Term Need for affiliation	Definition An interest in establishing and maintaining relationships with other people.
Term Need for power	Definition A tendency to seek impact, control, or influence over others and to be seen as a powerful individual.
Term Emotions	Definition Feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior.
Term James-Lange theory of emotion	Definition The belief that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation (“I feel sad because I am crying”).
Term Cannon-Bard theory of emotion	Definition The belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus.
Term Schachter-Singer theory of emotion	Definition The belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation, based on environmental cues.
Term Facial-affect program	Definition Activation of a set of nerve impulses that make the face display the appropriate expression.
Term Facial feedback hypothesis	Definition The hypothesis that facial expressions not only reflect emotional experience but also help determine how people experience and label emotions.

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