Motivation
To be induced or moved into action or thought by a motive or incentive.
What is motivation?
The body's constant stable internal environment.
What is Homeostasis?
Occurs when life demands strain coping resources.
What is stress?
Drives: physiological and psychological (push).
What is internal motivation?
The incentive that is chosen to be aquired or achieved.
What is a goal?
The anticipated reward or avoiding an aversive event in the environment.
What is an incentive?
Initiates self correting measures to return the body to homeostasis.
What is Negative Feedback System?
Environmental stressors of extreme magnitude.
What is cataclysmic phenomena?
Incentives and goals (pull).
What is external motivation?
Expected utility = utility x subjective probability.
What is expected utility theory?
Factors necessary for an event to be realized.
Relative interior body sensations.
What is Alliesthesia?
Less stress id produced when one has advanced notice that an aversive event is coming.
What is preparatory response hypothesis?
Psychological drive emerges from physiological need.
What is Hull's drive theory?
Daydreams or fantasies about achieveing a goal that intrude concious thought.
What are respondent thoughts?
These behaviors are engaged in to achieve motive satisfaction.
What are instrumental behaviors?
Triggers the body's need for water.
What is the hypothalamus?
Produces by extremely traumatic events.
What is Posttraumatic stress disorder?
Activates a need.
Mental attempts to develop strategies to achieve a goal.
What are operant thoughts?
Genetic History, Personal History, Physiological & Neurological factors, Psychological Variables.
What are the sources of motivation?
Hydration receptors and stretch receptors in the brain.
What are Osmoreceptors and Baroreceptors?
Extreme exercise or psychological stress can weaken the immune system and increase the likelihood of becomong ill.
What is open window hypothesis?
Tests whether or not needs are in a hierarchy.
What is need satisfactory inventory?
What is a cognitive map?