This is the brain area involved in emotions as well as detecting and responding to threat
What is the Amygdala?
100
An environmental object that occurs before the start of a sequence of behavior and attracts or repels the individual to engage or not in the behavior.
What is an incentive?
100
This is the neurotransmitter involved in feelings associated with reward.
What is Dopamine?
100
This is the brain area involved in approach motivation and positive affect.
What is the left prefrontal cortex?
200
This is the brain area involved in the pleasure experience of reward.
What is the nucleus accumbens?
200
An attractive environmental object that occurs at the end of a sequence of behavior and acts to increase the probability that the behavior will occur.
What is a reward?
200
This neurotransmitter helps to inhibit pain, anxiety, and fear by generating positive feeling to counteract the bad feelings.
What are endorphins?
200
This is the brain area involved in regulating arousal.
What is the Reticular Formation?
300
This is the brain area involved in responses during unexpected events (ok vs. not-ok mode).
What is the Hippocampus?
300
When an unwanted stimulus is removed from one's environment in response to a specific behavior in order to increase that behavior.
What is Negative Reinforcement?
300
This hormone is associated with bonding and seeking the counsel, support, and nurturance of others during times of stress.
What is Oxytocin?
300
This is the brain area involved in regulating biological functions as well the endocrine and autonomic nervous systems.
What is the Hypothalamus?
400
This is the brain area that, if electrically stimulated, a rat would press a lever to continue to receive this stimulation, possibly even until death
What is the Medial Forebrain Bundle?
400
A type of motivation that causes behavior to avoid guilt or shame. This is part of self-determination theory.
What is Introjected Regulation?
400
This is considered the stress hormone.
What is Cortisol?
400
This is the brain area involved in learning response-outcome contingencies.
What is the Medial Prefrontal Cortex?
500
This is the brain area involved in learning the incentive value of rewards/making choices. This area would be lit up while considering options on a menu.
What is the Orbitofrontal Cortex?
500
These are the two functional aspects involved in Deci and Ryan's Cognitive Evaluation Theory.
What are controlling and informational aspects?
500
These are the 3 major elements of emotion, as discussed in class.
What are physiological arousal, behavioral expression, and conscious experience?
500
These are the two perennial questions in Motivational Psychology.
What is "What Causes Behavior?" and "Why Does Behavior Vary in Intensity?"