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| Feelings or ideas that cause us to act toward a goal |
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| automatic behaviors performed in response to specific stimuli |
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| Behavior is motivated by biological needs |
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Requirement for survival
(food, water, shelter) |
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Impulse to act in a way to satisfy a need
(thirst drives us to drink water) |
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Learned drives
(ex: money) |
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Biological needs
(ex: water, food) |
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| Seeking optimum level of excitement or arousal |
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| Perform well on easy tasks w/ high arousal, but poorly on difficult tasks |
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| OPPONENT PROCESS THEORY OF MOTIVATION |
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When performing tasks that move us from homeostasis our bodies will want to return; until the altered state becomes homestasis.
(ex: smoking cigarettes makes people jittery; eventually the jittery state will become homestasis driving a person to smoke) |
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Stimuli we are drawn to due to learning.
(ex: money, candy, etc.) |
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| MASLOW'S HEIRARCHY OF NEEDS |
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| We are motivated to satisfy basic needs first and then move up the heirarchy of needs when basics are satisfied. |
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| Need to fulfill our unique potential as a person |
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| VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS |
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(Satiety center)
Causes animal/person to stop eating |
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| Hypothalamus wants to maintain a certain optimum body weight |
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| Eat large amounts of food in a short period of time (binging) then get rid of food (purging) |
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| Starve self and refuse to eat |
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| Overweight by over 100 pounds, unhealthy eating habits |
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| Examines our desires to master complex challenging tasks and personal goals. |
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| outside awards (grades, salary) |
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| internal rewards (enjoyment, satisfaction) |
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| Managers should internally motivate employees to do good work |
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| APPROACH-APPROACH CONFLICT |
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| occurs when you must choose between two disrable outcomes |
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| AVOIDANCE-AVOIDANCE CONFLICT |
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| Occurs when you must choose between two undesirable outcomes |
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| APPROACH-AVOIDANCE CONFLICT |
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| exists when both events/goals have attractive & unattractive features |
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| JAMES-LANGE THEORY OF EMOTION |
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We feel emotion because of biological changes caused by stress
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| CANNON-BARD THEORY OF EMOTION |
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| Biological changes and cognitive awareness occur at the same time thus creating an emotion |
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| SCHATCHER'S TWO-FACTORY THEORY |
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| Biological changes are cognitively labeled as a specific response thus creating an emotion |
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| GENERAL ADAPTATION SYNDROME (GAS) |
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theory explains how animals respond to stressful events:
1. Alarm reaction: ready sympathetic NS
2. Resistance: Body remains physiologically ready
3. Exhaustion: Parasympathetic NS returns body to homeostasis |
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