Motivation

Question 1

What is motivation

Answer 1

Something that is a need/drive that energizes and directs motivated behavior

Question 2

4 different viewpoints of motivation

Answer 2

instinct, drive reduction theory, arousal theory, heirarchy of needs

Question 3

Instinct theory

Answer 3

Complex behavior that has a fixed pattern throughout a species

Question 4

Drive reduction theory

Answer 4

physiological need that creates a drive that motivates the behavior in order to decrease the drive

Question 5

Optimum arousal

Answer 5

Some behaviors increase needs in some but not in others

Question 6

examples of optimum behavior

Answer 6

some people like horror movies or skydiving while others get no motivaed behavior

Question 7

Negative feedback loop

Answer 7

modify behavior until goes back to normal and then turns off

Question 8

How does drive reduction work

Answer 8

try to maintain a state of homeoestasis (happy medium) and behavior is motivated to keep homeostasis

Question 9

What are the stages of heirarchy of needs

Answer 9

psychological, safety, love/beloning, esteem, self actualization

Question 10

What are factors that control eating

Answer 10

memory, need for nutrients, social facilitation, unit bias, food variety

Question 11

What regulates why we eat

Answer 11

Cholecystokinin (CCK) from the start of small intestine

Question 12

Lateral hypothalamus

Answer 12

involved in turning eating on

Question 13

Medial hypothalamus

Answer 13

Involved in turning off eating (CCK)

Question 14

What happens when there is a lesion in lateral hypothalamus

Answer 14

Stop eating because aphagia is produced

Question 15

What happens when there is a lesion in the medial hypothalamus

Answer 15

Eat because of CCK

Question 16

What happens when there is electrical stimulation with lateral hypothalamus

Answer 16

Start eating

Question 17

What happens when there is electrical stimulation with medial hypothalamus

Answer 17

Turns off eating

Question 18

What was the Master’s and Johnson experiment

Answer 18

Filmed 10k sex cycles to find 4 stages of sex

Question 19

4 stages of sex

Answer 19

excitement phase, plateau phase, orgasm, resolution

Question 20

What is similar to both genders

Answer 20

orgasm state

Question 21

How long can resolution stage last

Answer 21

minutes to hours or to days

Question 22

What does drive reduction theory not explain

Answer 22

The excitement phase because this phase continues to increase drive

Question 23

what is released in order for males to ave an erection

Answer 23

nitric oxide in the genetalia

Question 24

Achievement motivation

Answer 24

Desire for significant accomplishment mastery of skill or attain high social status

Question 25

Task leadership

Answer 25

goal oriented leadership that sets standards, organizes work and helps focus

Question 26

Social leadership

Answer 26

Group oriented leadership that builds teamwork

Question 27

Intrinsic motivation

Answer 27

desire to engage in an activity because you want to

Question 28

Extrinsic motivation

Answer 28

Desire to engage in an activity to achieve a reward

Question 29

overjustification

Answer 29

process by which rewards no longer motivate intrinsic

Question 30

When do rewards work

Answer 30

Motivate someone to do something they don't want to do, increase intrinsic motivation if given for a good performance, and impair intrinsic if not given for performance

Question 31

What is a positive feedback loop

Answer 31

Drive that keeps building on top of itself

Question 32

What dopamine numbers go with low and moderate amnounts of dopamine

Answer 32

D1 and D5

Question 33

What happens at D2

Answer 33

High concetrations of dopamine and orgasm