Chapter 9 Vocabulary Flashcards
A response of the whole organism involving bodily arousal, expressing behaviors and conscious experience.
Emotions
The theory that our emotional experience is based on our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli.
James-Lange Theory
A basic bodily requirement.
Psysiological Need
The theory that our emotional experience is based on the simultaneous arousal of a physiological response and a subjective experience of emotion.
Cannon-Bard Theory
The weight at which a person feels most content.
Set Point
The theory that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates us to satisfy the need.
Drive-reduction Theory
The theory that people are motivated to maintain an optimum level of arousal.
Arousal Theory
The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for bodily tissues.
Glucose
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state.
Homeostasis
Maslow’s theory of needs, wherein more basic physical needs must be satisfied before more cognitive motivations can be fulfilled.
Hierarchy of Needs
the body’s resting rate of energy output.
Basal Metabolic Rate
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
Incentive
The theory that our emotional experience is based on a physiological response alone and any cognitive understanding is secondary to the experience.
Zajonc-LeDoux Theory
The theory that our emotional experience is based on a physiological response alone but a cognitive appraisal of some experiences is necessary to the process.
Lazarus Theory
A need or desire that energizes or directs behavior.
Motivation
