Theories of Motivation
A balanced State
Homeostasis
A person who is 30 percent or more above his or her ideal body weight.
Obese
Deciding not to try out for the basketball team because you may not make it anyway would be an example of?
Fear of Failure
Your experience activates the hypothalamus
Messages are sent to throughout the body
You feel an emotion and your body reacts at the same time.
Cannon-Bard Theory
Innate tendencies that determine behavior
Instincts
engaging in activities that either reduce biological needs or help us obtain external incentives.
Extrinsic Motivation
The part of the hypothalamus that can cause one to stop eating.
Ventromedial
According to JW Atkinson, this is your estimated likelihood of success.
Expectancy
A set of complex reactions to stimuli involving subjective feelings, psychological arousal, and observable behavior.
Emotion
Biological or psychological requirement of an organism
Need
an external stimulus, reinforcer, or reward that motivates behavior.
Incentive
External cues that can effect eating
psychological hunger factors
This states; Too easy a task or too difficult a task means we do not learn anything about how competent we are.
Competency Theory
The muscles in your face move to form an expression
Your brain interprets muscle movement
You feel an emotion
You demonstrate observable behavior
Facial Feedback Theory
A fundamental theory in psychology suggesting that our fundamental needs must be met, before we can meet our own psychological needs as well as fulfilling our own unique potential.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
An internal state that activates behavior and directs it towards a goal.
Motivation
The part of the hypothalamus that produces hunger signals
Lateral
Biological drives that must be satisfied to maintain life
fundamental needs
The ability to perceive imagine and understand emotions and use that information in decision making.
Emotional Intelligence
A state of tension produced by a need that motivates an organism toward a goal.
Drive
When people are given more extrinsic motivation than necessary to perform a task their motivation declines
Overjustification effect
The weight around which your day to day weight tends to fluctuate.
Set Point
David McClelland's photographic tool for measuring achievement motivation, also known as the TAT.
Thematic Apperception Test
According to this theory, when the stimulus for one emotion is removed, you feel the opposite reaction.
Opponent Process Theory
Engaging in activities because they are personally rewarding or because they fulfill our beliefs and expectations.
Intrinsic Motivation