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Motivation
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This is complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.
What is instincts
100
This form of sugar circulate in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues.
What is glucose
100

When someone does no work in a group it is called this.

What is social-loafing

100
When an individual is motivated by the inherent enjoyment they get out of something.
What is intrinsic motivation
100

a society’s understood rules for accepted and expected behavior. Norms prescribe “proper” behavior in individual and social situations.

What are norms (or social norms)

200
This motivation theory is based on biological needs. Satisfying those needs brings us back to homeostasis.
What is the drive-reduction theory
200
This is the body's resting rate of energy expenditure.
What is basal metabolic rate
200

adjusting our behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

What is conformity

200
This is the average level at which an individualʼs “weight thermostat” is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight.
What is set point
200
This motivation theory explains why we go on roller coasters or bungee jump.
What is optimal-arousal theory
300
This is the maintenance of a steady internal state.
What is homeostasis
300
This part of the brain maintains hunger through the monitoring of various hunger-based hormones like gherlin.
What is the hypothalamus
300

the tendency for observers, when analyzing others’ behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition

What is fundamental attribution error

300
This theory states that we are motivated by seeking excitement and our performance is best when it is at a moderate level of arousal.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson law
300
According to Abraham Maslow, this is the most basic need that need to be met.
What is physiological
400
This is a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
What is an incentive
400
This was the finding of the hunger-based experiment of AL Washburn and Walter Cannon.
What is stomach contractions occur when we are hungry
400

the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.

What is deindividuation

400
There are two factors in Schacter and Singerʼs theory of emotion. Name those two factors.
What is physiological arousal and cognitive appraisal.
400
This theory would be most helpful for explaining why people are motivated to watch horror movies.
What is optimal-arousal theory
500
This is a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.
What is motivation
500
The name of the part of the brain that when stimulated leads to overeating in mice or when destroyed the mice have no desire to eat.
What is the arcuate nucleus
500

the principle that frustration — the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal — creates anger, which can generate aggression.

What frustration-aggression principle?

500
According to Abraham Maslow, in order for our needs to be loved and belong to be met, what two needs must be met first?
What is physiological and safety
500

Maslow's Hierrachy originally ended on Self-actualization, but after reading his notes his hierarchy ends this.

What is Self-transcendence.