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Motivation

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I need a desire to energizes indirect behavior

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Instinct theory

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Complex online genetically inherited behaviors that original pattern throughout a species

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Strength of instant theory

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Helps explain behavioral similarities

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Limitation of instant theory

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Doesn’t consider human cognitive capabilities

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Drive reduction theory

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Psychological need creates in arouse tension that motivates an organism to satisfy the need

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Strength of a drive reduction theory

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Explains basic biological needs and push factors

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Homeostasis

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The bodies desire to maintain an internal physiological state

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Limitation of drive reduction theory

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Doesn’t explain complex and very behaviors of humans

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Incentive theory

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We are pulled into action by positive or negative external stimuli

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Strength of incentive theory

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based on well-established starting principles

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limitation of incentive theory 

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Does not explain intrinsic motivation and cannot explain behaviors that have no apparent external worth

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Optimum arousal theory

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Human motivation and to increase arousal

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Strength of optimum arousal theory

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Explains physiological arousal needed for specific tasks

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Optimum level of arousal

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Motivation is a search for just the right amount of excitement

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Limitation of optimum level of arousal

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Doesn’t explain motivations for more complex social needs

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yerkes dodson law

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Increased arousal can help improve performance but only up to a certain point at the point when arousal becomes excessive performance diminishes

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Suggested that people are motivated by a hierarchy of needs

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Level one physiological needs

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The most basic of Maslow’s needs the things we need to survive

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Level two security

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People want control over our lives so the need for safety hey security contribute largely to behaviors

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Level III social needs

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At this level the need for emotional relationship drives human behavior

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Level for esteem needs

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At this point it becomes increasingly important to gain respect and appreciation of others people have a need to accomplish things and have it recognized

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level 5self actualization

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Hi several of hierarchy need that essentially equates to achieving full potential

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Level six self transcendence

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People drive for meaning purpose and communion that is beyond the cell

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Hunger motivation

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Understanding why we eat hunger is a motivator and a drive state

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Hypothalamus
Most of the biological feeling of hunger comes from this brain structure
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Lateral hypothalamus
The on button for eating if simulates causes you to feel hunger
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Ventromedial hypothalamus
The off button for eating when simulated makes you feel full
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Set points versus settling point
Homeostasis of body weight weight range determined by genetics and physiological
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Bulimia
Nerve Osa binge and purge cycle
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Anorexia
Characterized by not eating enough
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Obesity
The potential for health problems associated with diabetes and hypertension are growing concerns in our population
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Sexual motivation
The normal human interest in sexual objects and activities
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Degree of attraction to the absent or same gender
Sexual orientation
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Sexual response cycle
Excitement to plateau to orgasm to resolution
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Achievement motivation
I need for achievement drives accomplishment performance in there by motivates her behavior
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Extrinsic motivation
Behavior that is driven by external rewards like money grades same and praise
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Intrinsic motivation
Behavior is driven by internal rewards
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Over justification of fact
Phenomenon were being rewarded for doing something actually diminishes intrinsic motivation to perform the action
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Emotion
A response to stimuli that in valves physiological arousal to the automatic nervous system
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Nonverbal communication
Facial expressions gestures posture distance and nonlinguistic vocalization that expresses emotional feelings
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Display rule
A social group or cultures normal about how to appropriately express emotions
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Common sense very
I stimulus leads to emotion which leads to a bottle you arousal
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James Lange theory
emotional scars result result of us physiological reactions to events
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Facial feedback hypothesis
Facial expressions are connected to experiencing emotions
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Cannon Bard theory of emotion
Stimuli triggers didn’t knew genius Lee physiological and psychological experience of emotions
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Stretched or singer to factor theory
The physiological arousal occurs first then the individual must identify the reason for this arousal to label and experience as a motion
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Stress
The process by which experience and respond to stressors
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Acute stress
Short term stress
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Chronic stress
Show us that seems never ending and inescapable
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You stress
Positive stress
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Distress
Unpleasant stress
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General adaptation syndrome
research by Hans sell the three stages of the body‘s reaction to stress
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Alarm
When the body first you guys to a stressor the sympathetic nervous system is activated
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Resistance
Stress continues the body continues to release the stress hormones out the body fight off a resist dresser
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Exhaustion
On the bodies resources are gone exhaustion occurs in Kinley distress related diseases
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Locus of control
The extent to which people feel that they have control over the events that influence their lives
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Internal locus of control
Believe that you have control over what happens
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External locus of control
I am outside forces for those circumstances
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Type a personality
Competitive perfectionist aggressive a patient Richard
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Type B personality
Relaxed patient easy-going underachieving
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Emotion focused coping
I’ll leave you any shows bag knowing avoiding the stressor in attending to the emotional reaction
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Problem focused coping
Alleviating the stress by changing the structure or the way we react to it
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Appraisal focused coping
A toast to refurbish stressors changing one’s perception’s in assumptions about the stressors
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Personality psychology
The scientific study of the whole person
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Sigmund Froude
The father of psychoanalysis you regarded as one of the most influential in controversial minds of the 20th century
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Psychoanalytic theory’s
Human behaviors are determined by force is over which we have very little control and about which we are generally unaware
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Unconscious
I reservoir and mostly unacceptable thought squish his feelings and memories
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ID
Part of human personality that is made of all our inborn biological urges that seeks out immediate gratification
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Ego
Largely conscious ask 2nd Ave. part of personality that mediate I’m on the man’s of it super ego in reality
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Super ego
The part of the personality to represent internal ideas and provide standards for judgment
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Psychosexual stages
Childhood stages of development went according to Froude the IDs pleasure seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous loans
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oedipus complex
A boy sexual desire told his mother and feelings of jealousy for arrival father
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Identification
According to food children incorporate their parents values into their developing super egos
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Fix ation
According to Fruita lingering focus of pleasure seeking energy is at an earlier psychosexual stage where conflicts for unresolved
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Psychoanalysis
Fruits technique used in treating psycho analytical disorders by seeking to expose in interpret unconscious tensions
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Free association
And psychoanalysis a method of explaining the unconscious with a person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind no matter how trivial or embarrassing
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Interpretation of dreams
Foods analysis of dreams few dreams and significant hidden material
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Manifest content
What is remembered the censored version food was interested in the lake in content that was not remembered
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Latent content
Dream interpretation was the Royal Road to the knowledge of unconscious and mental like
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Defense mechanisms
The ego protects itself with defensive mechanism’s tactics that reduce or redirecting Zaidi by distorting reality
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Repression
Asked to keep information out of the conscious awareness
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Displacement
Taking out frustrations feelings and impulses and people are objects that are less starting
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Projection
Taking your own unacceptable qualities your feelings in putting them on other people
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Regression
Revert to patterns of behavior used earlier and development
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Denial
All right refusal to admit I recognize that something has occurred or is currently occurring
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Rationalization
Explaining an unacceptable behavior feeling in a rational and logical manner
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Reaction formation
Taking up the opposite feeling impulse our behavior
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Nail through Adian’s
Psycho analyst excepted for his basic ideas
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Psychodynamic theory
Excepted the ID ego super ego that personality was defined in childhood in the unconscious
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Carl Jung
Early fall or a fruit establish rival theological perspective all people share a collective unconscious
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Collective Unconscious
Tell me a collection of images that we have a game together as humans for my ancestral an evolutionary best
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Archetypes
Universal parents that structure how all humans consciously and unconsciously adapter that world
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Persona
The socially acceptable mask or from the person presents to the world
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Alfred Adler
Emphasize social interest as the primary determinant of behavior
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Elder birth order
The oldest is prepared for appearance of arrival the middle is ambitious and well-adjusted the youngest is excellent in many areas or becomes avoid it if lacking confidence
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Karen horny
Feminist perspective to psychoanalytic theory attacked me a bison foods work
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Projective test
Personality test the provider ambiguous stimuli and ask testtakers to tell a story about it
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Somatic appreciation test
Projective test more people express their inner feelings and interest of the stories that make up about ambiguous scenes
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Ink blot test
Most widely used projective test instead of 10 invert in flux but he spends a show on the Xbox and ask for each looks like
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The modern unconscious mind
A separate in parallel task of information processing that occurs outside of our awareness
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Humanistic theories
Emphasize the importance of free will and individual experience in the development of personality

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