Theories/Laws
People are motivated to behave in certain ways because they are genetically programmed to do so with survival instincts.
What is instinct theory?
Removing stressors in order to enable us to better tolerate them
What is Adaptive strategies?
Most of the biological feeling of hunger comes from this brain structure that is responsible for synthesizing and secreting various hormones.
What is hypothalamus?
Suggested the people are motivated by a set of needs where the bottom level must be met in order to climb up.
What is hierarchy of needs?
Occurs when people experience unpleasant or undesirable stressors
What is distress?
The idea that a physiological need creates a drive that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.
What is drive reduction theory?
The management of emotions that come up from stressful situations.
What is Emotion focused coping?
Enviormental factors that influence our desire to eat.
What is external cues?
Level 1, food, water, breathing, homeostasis
What is physiological needs?
Stress that seems never ending and inescapable 🙊
What is chronic stress?
States that there is an ideal level of anxiety or stress that leads to peak performance.
What is The Optimum Arousal Theory?
Failure to remove stressors or substitute ones stressors for another.
What is Maladaptive strategies?
The hypothalamus aims to maintain a certain optimum body- it will lower and raise our metabolic rate in order to reach this.
What is set point?
Level 4, feelings of accomplishment, prestige, self esteem, personal worth
What is Esteem Needs?
A very short term type of stress
What is acute stress?
The idea that we are pulled into action by positive or negative incentives.
What is incentive theory?
The extent to which people feel that they have control over the events that influence their lives.
What is Locus of Control?
The on button for eating and causes you to feel hunger.
What is lateral hypothalamus?
Level 5, achieving ones full potential, self aware, concerned with personal growth, less concerned with the opinons of others
What is self actualization?
The optimal amount of stress that people need to promote health and well being.
What is Eustress?
States that increased arousal can help improve performance only to a certain point.
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law?
Attempts to re-frame the stressors by changing one's perceptions and assumptions about the stressors
What is Appraisal focused coping?
The off button for eating when stimulated it makes you feel full.
What is ventromedial hypothalamus?
People strive for meaning, purpose, and communion that is beyond the self
What is self transcendence?
describes the physiological changes your body goes through as it responds to stress. These changes occur in stages- alarm, resistance, exhaustion
What is general adaptation syndrome?