Motivation
A need or desire that energizes behavior
What is motivation?
A complex psychological state that involves conscious experience, bodily arousal, and expressive behaviors
What is emotion?
A basic biological requirement like food, water, or air
What is a physiological need?
The process by which we perceive and respond to events that threaten or challenge us
What is stress?
People who expect things to go well in life
What are optimists?
Theory of motivation where needs are ordered by priority and you must satisfy the basic needs before worrying about meeting needs higher up on the hierarchy
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Ways in which we categorize emotion
What are valence and arousal?
The body's tendency to maintain a constant internal state
What is homeostasis?
The three types of stressors
What are daily hassles, significant life changes, and catastrophes?
One option for dealing with stress by sustaining activity that increases heart and lung fitness
What is aerobic exercise?
Theory of motivation where a physiological need creates an aroused state (drive) in order to satisfy that need
What is drive-reduction theory?
Theorist who believed emotions arise when we do what to determine if a situation is harmless or dangerous
Who is Lazarus?
The need to build and maintain relationships and to feel part of a group is referred to as
The main forms of coping with stress
What are emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping?
The ability to recover from adversity and trauma
What is resilience?
Theory of motivation where people are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal
What is arousal theory?
The pathway where some emotions, especially complex feelings such as hatred and love, travel to the brain's cortex where they are analyzed and labeled before the response command is sent out via the amygdala
What is the high road?
Amount of arousal Yerkes-Dodson law suggests for optimal performance
What is moderate arousal?
The body's response to prolonged stress
What is general adaptation syndrome?
(Alarm, resistance, exhaustion)
The belief that our fate is determined by outside forces beyond our personal control
What is an external locus of control?
Type of motivation dictated by external rewards
What is extrinsic motivation?
1. Noticing your heart pounding and then becoming afraid
2. Your heart begins to pound while you simultaneously feel afraid.
3. Noticing your heart pounding and interpreting that arousal as fear.
1. What is the James-Lange theory of emotion?
2. What is the Cannon-Bard theory of emotion?
3. What is the two-factor theory of emotion?
The passive resignation that accompanies an inability to avoid repeated aversive events.
What is learned helplessness?
The tendency for standards of judgment to be heavily influenced by previous experiences
What is adaption-level-phenomenon?
The least effective of Gross' strategies for emotion regulation
What is suppression?