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| a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior | ||
| innate (unlearned) patterns of behavior | ||
| biological or psychological requirement of an organism | ||
| a state of tension produced by a need; motivates an organism toward a goal | ||
| tendency of the body to maintain a balanced state | ||
| developmental - attachment styles among monkeys (metal monkey mothers) | ||
| an external stimulus, motivates behavior | ||
| external motivation; completion of activity because of the consequence | ||
| internal motivation; completing the activity because it please you | ||
| brings on hunger | ||
| satiety center; sends stop eating signals | ||
| unlearned, primary drives | ||
| unlearned, but depend on the environment; | ||
| learned needs | ||
| TAT: a projective personality test; subjects to make up stories that explain pictures | ||
| achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT | ||
| studied achievement in women; found they had a fear of success | ||
| humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs | ||
| Maslow's pyramid of human needs | ||
| biological drives that must be satisfied to maintain life; 1 and 2 | ||
| the need to belong and to give and receive love, and to acquire esteem through achievement; 3 and 4 | ||
| self fulfillment; realization of all ones potential; 5 | ||
| response of an organism, involving physiological arousal, behavior, and conscious experience | ||
| found that facial expressions are universal | ||
| stimuli in environment cause physiological change in bodies, then emotion comes | ||
| processing emotions and bodily response occur simultaneously | ||
| two factor theory of emotion, physiological arousal will be interpreted as different emotions depending on environmental cues; cognitive | ||
| emotion theory; sympathetic and parasympathetic work to regulate emotion, term also used in vision theory (red-green, yellow-blue, white-black) | ||
| emotion comes from facial expressions | ||
| possessed at birth, not learned | ||
| a physicalneed creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need | ||
| idea that your body returns to a preprogrammed weight | ||
| associated with emotions and drives. Includes the hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus | ||
| peripheral nervous system; includes sympathetic division ; its parasympathetic division . | ||
| arouses the body, mobilizing its energy in stressful situations | ||
| calms the body, conserving its energy | ||
| proposed 8 basic emotions | ||
| created TAT, list of 16 social motives | ||
| studied human sexuality; published a series of reports which described common sexual behaviors in the US | ||
| Stress theorist, he created the model of General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | ||
| performance is best under moderate arousal, difficlut tasks= lower arousal | ||
| physical reaction to threat; autonomic nervous system mobilizes for attacking or fleeing an enemy | ||
| internal conflict that results from having to choose between two attractive alternatives | ||
| internal conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives | ||
| internal conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects | ||
| internal conflict involving a choice between two or more options, each having both positive and negative aspects |
