C11 Vocab

Question 0

Drive

Answer 0

A state of unrest or irritation that energizes one behavior after another until one of them removed the irritation

Question 1

Motivation

Answer 1

The process that determines the reinforcement value of an outcome

Question 2

Homeostasis

Answer 2

The maintenance of an optimum level of biological conditions within an organism

Question 3

Allostasis

Answer 3

Maintaining levels of biological conditions that vary according to an individual’s needs and circumstances

Question 4

Incentives

Answer 4

External stimuli that pull us towards certain actions

Question 5

Intrinsic motivation

Answer 5

Motivation to do an act for its own sake

Question 6

Extrinsic motivation

Answer 6

Based in the reinforcements and punishments the act may bring

Question 7

Over justification effect

Answer 7

When people receive more extrinsic motivation than necessary for a task, their intrinsic motivation declines

Question 8

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 8

An organization from the most insistent needs to the ones that receive attention only when all others are under control

Question 9

What hormones influence hunger

Answer 9

Ghrelin(stomach), insulin(pancreas), glucagon(pancreas), leptin(fat cells)

Question 10

Glucose

Answer 10

Most abundant sugar in blood, almost the only source of energy for the brain

Question 11

Obesity

Answer 11

Excessive accumulation of body fat

Question 12

Anorexia nervosa

Answer 12

A condition in which someone refuses to eat enough to maintain a stable weight, intensely fears gaining weight, and misperceives their body as fatter than it actually is

Question 13

Bulimia nervosa

Answer 13

Alternation between periods of self deprivation and excessive eating when they feel they have lost their ability to control themselves

Question 14

Mere measurement effect

Answer 14

Estimating your probability of doing some desirable activity increases your probability of doing that activity

Question 15

Need for achievement

Answer 15

People feel good when they accomplish something that they weren’t sure they could achieve

Question 16

Scientific management approach

Answer 16

Known as theory X, believes that most employees are lazy, indifferent, and uncreative and that the employees should be closely watched and managed

Question 17

Human relations approach

Answer 17

Known as theory Y, believes that employees like variety, a sense of achievement, and a sense of responsibility and that they should be given more freedom

Question 18

Transformational leader

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Articulates a vision of the future, intellectually stimulates subordinates, and motivates them to use their imagination to advance the organization

Question 19

Transactional leader

Answer 19

Tries to make the organization more efficient at doing what it is already doing by providing rewards(mainly pay) for effective work