Myers Exploring Psychology 9th edition Chapter 10 terms
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| 1006258271 | Motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. | 0 | |
| 1006258272 | Instinct | A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned. | 1 | |
| 1006258273 | Drive-reduction theory | The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need. | 2 | |
| 1006258274 | Homeostasis | A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level. | 3 | |
| 1006258275 | Incentive | A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior. | 4 | |
| 1006258276 | Yerkes-Dodson law | The principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases. | 5 | |
| 1006258277 | Hierarchy of needs | Maslow's pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher - level safety needs and then psychological needs become active. | 6 | |
| 1006258278 | Glucose | The form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hunger. | 7 | |
| 1006258279 | Set point | The point at which your "weight thermostat" is supposedly set. When your body falls below this weight, increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may combine to restore the lost weight. | 8 | |
| 1006258280 | Basal metabolic rate | The body's resting rate of energy expenditure. | 9 | |
| 1006258281 | Achievement motivation | A desire for significant accomplishment, for mastery of skills or ideas, for control, and for rapidly attaining a high standard. | 10 | |
| 1006258282 | Emotion | A response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience. | 11 | |
| 1006258283 | James-Lange theory | The theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. | 12 | |
| 1006258284 | Cannon-Bard theory | The theory that an emotion - arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion. | 13 | |
| 1006258285 | Two-factor theory | The Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal. | 14 | |
| 1006258286 | Polygraph | A machine, commonly used in attempts to detect lies, that measures several of the physiological responses (such as perspiration and cardiovascular and breathing changes) accompanying emotion. | 15 | |
| 1006258287 | Facial feedback effect | The tendency of facial muscle states to trigger corresponding feelings, such as fear, anger, or happiness. | 16 |
