Unit 8- Motivation And Emotion Flashcards by Samantha McLendon

Drive

an internal state of tension that motivates and organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Motives

Needa wants interests and desires that propel people in certain directions

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Drive reduction

Returning to homeostasis

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Incentive

External goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Where does the motivation lie with drive theories

Within (push)

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Where does motivation lie in incentive theories?

External (pull)

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Evolution theories

Natural selection based behavior

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Affiliation motive

Need for belongingness

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What part of the brain regulates biological needs

Hypothalamus

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What recognizes fullness

Paraventricular nucleus

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What recognizes hunger

Arcuate nucleus

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Leptin

Obesity hormone

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Ghrelin

Stomach contractions

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Insulin

Comes from pancreas and extracts sugar from blood

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Desire to perform a behavior for its own sake

Intrinsic

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Desire to perform a behavior because of reward

Extrinsic

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Need for belongingness

Affiliation motive

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

What factors maximize reproductive success

Achievement, affiliation, dominance, aggression, sex drives

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Arousal theory

People experience both high and low levels of arousal being unpleasant

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Body needs

Biological motives

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Achievement needs

Social motives

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Who discovered relationship between stomach contraction/hunger desire

Walter cannon

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Brains hunger on and off

Lateral hypothalamus and ventral hypothalamus

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Glucostatic theory

Fluctuations in blood glucose level are monitored in brain and influence hunger

How well did you know this?

Not at all

Perfectly

Cells in stomach walls that signal stretching

Vagus nerve

Food cues

Platability Quantity available Variety Presence of others

Being overweight

Obesity

Body mass index

BMI

Some people do inherit genetic vulnerability to obesity

Genetic predisposition

Indicates socially approve food intake

Normative cues

Characteristics of food itself

Sensory cues

Natural point of stability in body weight

Set point

Weight tends to drive around level at which the constellation of factors that determine food consumption and energy expenditure achieve an equilibrium

Settling point theory

Sexual response creators

Master and Johnson

How many stages is the sexual response cycle

Physical arousal rises rapidly in response to stimuli

Excitement phase

Engorgement of blood vessels

Vasocongestion

Physical arousal continues to build at a much slower pace

Plateau

What happens to women in the plateau phase

Vaginal entrance tightens

What happens to men in the plateau phase

Pre cum

When is the foreplay stage

Plateau

When secual arousal reaches its peak

Orgasm

When does BP and Hr peak

Orgasm

Physical arousal returns to normal

Resolution

What happens to men during the resolution

Refractory

What each sex had to invest to produce and nurture offspring

Parental investment

What do mean emphasize

Physical attraction and youthfulness

What do women emphasize

Intelligence, ambition, income, social status

What did Freud believe in terms of homosexuality

Gay wen raised by detached father and overprotective mother

The need to master difficult challenges, to outperform others

Achievement motive

Projective test where you respond to vague stimuli

Thematic apperception test

What Is emotion

Conscious experience Bodily arousal Characteristic overt expressions

Efforts to predict emotional responses to future events

Affective forecasting

Cognitive component

Highly personal, verbal

Increase in electrical conductivity of skin when swearing increases

Galvanic skin response

Conditioned fears

Amygdala

Pleasure emotions

Mesolimbic dopamine pathway

What does emotion depend on?

Activity in a network of interacting brain centers

Specific facial expressions trigger the experience of specific emotions

Facial-feedback hypothesis

Different emotions are accompanied by somewhat different patterns of autonomic activation

Autonomic specificity

James and Lange theory of emotion

Conscious experience of human emotion results from ones perception of autonomic arousal

Cannon and vard theory of emotion

Emotion occurs when the thalamus sends signals simultaneously to the cortex and to the autonomic nervous system

Schachters two factor theory

Emotion is experience by autonomic arousal and cognitive interpretation of that arousal

Darwins evolutionary theory on emotion

Emotions developed because of adaptive value

Individuals personal perceptions of their overall happiness and life satisfaction

Subjective well-being

Strong happy factors

Love, work, genes

Moderate happy factors

Health social activity religion

Not happy factors

Money age parenthood intelligence

Unit 8- Motivation And Emotion Flashcards

(68 cards)