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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
What is motivation?
A response of an organism to a stimulus that involves physiological arousal, cognition & behavior
What is emotion?
When our stomach is empty, it secretes this hormone?
What is ghrelin?
The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.
What is independent variable?
Ethics require that if you use this, you MUST debrief.
What is deceive?
The tendency to maintain a balance or constant internal state
What is homeostasis?
cultural rules specifying what emotions should and should not be expressed under what circumstances
What are display rules?
When our fat cells release leptin, they are signaling what feeling?
What is satiety?
A subset of the population.
What is sample?
a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
What is incentive?
the idea that facial expressions can influence emotions as well as reflect them
What is facial-feedback hypothesis?
When this part of the brain is stimulated, it makes a rat want to eat
hypothalamus
Extent to which research results apply to a range of individuals not included in the study.
What is generalizability?
For your sense of vision, transduction occurs in the __________.
What is retina?
When the motivation comes from within; you do it because you love it
What is intrinsic motivation?
This theory says that positive emotions help us become more resilient
What is the broaden & build theory?
Name the theory: your stomach growls; you get something to eat; homeostasis is restored
What is drive reduction theory?
In an experiment, it’s the group that does not receive the experimental treatment
What is control group (control condition)?
In Pavlov’s experiment, it was the food.
What is unconditioned stimulus?
The theory that we feel motivated to satisfy our needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, devided into two types of motivation.
What is self-determination theory?
the interpretation of an event that helps determine the emotion we will experience
What is cognitive label / appraisal?
Name that theory: you are not really hungry, but you are out with your friends, and they are eating fries. They smell delicious. You eats some.
What is incentive theory?
A process by which the procedures and results of an experiment are evaluated by other scientists who are in the same field or who are conducting similar research.
What is peer review?
The date of our AP Psych exam.
What is May 16?