Unit 6- Motivation Flashcards
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Instinctive Theory
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Certain behaviors are innate and due to evolutionary programming (animals only)
2
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Drive Reduction Theory
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Desire to reduce internal tension and unmet biological needs
3
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Homeostasis
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Body’s balanced state
4
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Incentive Motivation
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Motivated by the ‘pull’ of external goals
5
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Arousal Theory
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Maintaining optimal level of arousal
Yerkes-Dodson-law
6
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Yerkes-Dodson Law
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Preform better under optimum level of arousal
7
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Sensation Seeking
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Experience seeking, adventure seeking, disinhibition, boredom susceptibility
8
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Self Determination Theory
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Intrinsic and Extrinsic
9
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Intrinsic
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Internal pushes, sense of accomplishment
10
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Extrinsic
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External pull, similar to incentive
