Motivation
Innate tendencies that determine behavior
Instinct
Cues for hunger that come from a variety of physiological changes in the body and neurological changes in the brain.
Biological hunger factors
A desire to set challenging goals and to persist longer at tasks, showing better performance on tasks, activities, and exams and being attracted to careers that require initiative.
What is a Need for High Achievement.
A feeling made up of four components: appraising a stimulus, subjective experience, physiological arousal, and observable behavior.
What is an Emotion?
These refer to specific cultural norms that regulate when, where, and how much emotion can be expressed.
What are Display Rules.
Innate biological forces that predispose an animal to behave in a fixed way in the presence of a specific environmental condition.
Fixed-Action Pattern
Refers to a person who is 20% or more overweight.
Obesity
Personality test used to measure the need for achievement.
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Emotions that are recognized in most cultures and help the species to survive.
What are Universal Emotions.
This is one of the more popular excuses of self-handicapping strategies.
Choose one:
Health;
Fate; or
Drug Use.
A biological state in which the organism lacks something essential for survival.
What is a "Need".
Cues that come from associations we make between eating and various stimuli in our environment.
Psycho-social hunger factors
A tendancy to make excuses for one's failure.
Self-Handicapping.
The theory states that our brains interpret changes in physiological arousal as feelings or emotions.
James-Lange Theory.
This refers to the process the body uses to maintain a certain stable amount of body fat throughout our lives.
What is the Set Point.
External stimuli, reinforcers, goals, or rewards that may be positive or negative and that motivate one's behavior.
Incentive
One of the major cues fro being hungry comes from a drop in the level of this substance in the blood.
Glucose (Blood Sugar)
Shown by people who choose easy, non-challenging tasks.
Fear of Failure
This theory states that feedback from facial movement gives rise to emotions.
What is the facial feedback theory?
The question of whether you think before you feel an emotion or feel an emotion before you think.
This influences us to perform behaviors because the behaviors themselves are personally rewarding.
Intrinsic Motivation
This area of the brain is involved in initiating feelings of being full.
Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus.
Someone who score relatively high on a test of ability or intelligence but performs more poorly than his or her scores would predict.
What is an Underachiever.
This theory states that your interpretation or appraisal of a situation can contribute to your subjective feelings.
What is the Cognitive Appraisal theory?
The law that states that the performance of a task depends on the amount of physiological arousal and the difficulty of the task.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?