Unit 8 Motivation and Emotion Flashcards
(30 cards)
Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
Motivation
A complex, unlearned behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species
Instinct
The idea that a physiological need creates an ariuses tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
Drive reduction theory
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state
Homeostasis
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior
Incentive
The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases
Yerkes-Dodson law
Maslows pyramid of human needs
Hierarchy of needs
The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissue
Glucose
The point at which an individuals “weight thermostat”
Set point
The body’s resting rate of energy expenditure
Base metabolic rate
The four stages of sexual responding
Sexual response cycle
A resting period after orgasm
Refractory period
A problem that consistently impairs sexual aeousal or functioning
Sexual dysfunction
Sex hormones such as estradiol
Estrogens
The most important of the male hormones
Testosterone
A response of the whole organism
Emotion
The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli
James Lange theory
The theory that an emotion arousing stimulus sinulataneoualy triggers
Cannon bard theory
The schachter singer theory that to experience emotion one must
Two factor theory
The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear and or happiness
Facial feedback effect
A subfield of psychology that provides Psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine
Health psychology
The process by which we perceive and respond to certain events
Stress
Selyes concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases
General adaptation syndrome
Under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others
Tend and befriend response
