CHAPTER 8
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| 5745590658 | Motivation | A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior |  | 0 |
| 5745590659 | Emotion | our feelings - composed of a four part process physiological arousal, subjective feelings, cognitive interpretation/appraisal, and behavioral expression | 1 | |
| 5745590660 | Drive | an internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need | 2 | |
| 5745590661 | Instinct Theory | supported by evolutionary psychology, posits that the learning of species-specific behavior motivates organisms to do what is necessary to ensure their survival |  | 3 |
| 5745590662 | Drive Theory of Motivation | deviations from homeostasis create unmet physiological needs that result in tension that directs behavior to meet the need and ultimately bring the system back to homeostasis | 4 | |
| 5745590663 | 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, equilibrium. |  | 5 |
| 5745590664 | Arousal Theory of Motivation | people perform actions in order to maintain an optimal level of arousal | 6 | |
| 5745590666 | Abraham Maslow's Theory of Motivation | a listing of needs organized by priority - aka Hierarchy of Needs | 7 | |
| 5745590667 | 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 |  | 8 |
| 5745590668 | Achievement Motivation | a desire for significant accomplishment; for mastery of things, people, or ideas; for rapidly attaining a high standard | 9 | |
| 5745590669 | Set Point Theory | belief that brain mechanisms regulate body weight around a genetically predetermined 'set point' |  | 10 |
| 5745590670 | Bulimia | An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating, usually of high-calorie foods, followed by vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise. |  | 11 |
| 5745590671 | Anorexia | an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly (15 percent or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve. |  | 12 |
| 5745590672 | Sexual Motivation | caused by both influential hormones as well as environmental factors, and highly variable across cultures and individuals | 13 | |
| 5745590673 | Stress | Any circumstances that threaten or are perceived to threaten one's well-being and that thereby tax one's coping abilities. |  | 14 |
| 5745590675 | Distress | A negative stress that can make a person sick or can keep a person from reaching a goal. | 15 | |
| 5745590676 | Stressors | specific events (acute) or chronic pressures that place demands on a person or threaten the person's well-being |  | 16 |
| 5745590680 | Fight or Flight Response | A series of physical changes that prepare the body to react to stress |  | 17 |
| 5745590682 | James- Lange Theory of Emotion | This theory states that you first get a physical reaction and then from that you know your emotion. |  | 18 |
| 5745590683 | Cannon - Bard Theory of Emotion | Emotion occurs when the thalamus send signals simultaneously to the cortex (creating the concious experience of emotion), and to the autonomic nervous system (creating visceral arousal |  | 19 |
| 5745590684 | Two Factor Theory of Emotion | the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal |  | 20 |
| 5745602082 | Intrinsic Motivation | a desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective | 21 | |
| 5745610736 | Extrinsic Motivation | A desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment | 22 | |
| 5745620033 | Glucose | the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues | 23 | |
| 5745624741 | Lateral hypothalamus | Area along the side of the hypothalamus that brings on hunger | 24 | |
| 5745627928 | Ventromedial hypothalamus | Area along the side of the hypothalamus that reduces hunger | 25 | |
| 5745634725 | Coronary heart disease | the clogging of vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in the U.S.A. | 26 | |
| 5745640108 | Type A Personality | Characterized by being competitive, impatient, aggressive and anger-prone. | 27 | |
| 5745644232 | Type B Personality | Characterized be being easygoing and relaxed. | 28 | |
| 5745647837 | Burnout | physical, emotional and mental exhaustion brought on by persistent job-related stress | 29 |
