What motivates your behavior?
Factors of differing strength that energize, direct, and sustain behavior.
What is motivation?
The need, or desire, to attain a certain standard of excellence.
What is achievement motivation?
An immediate, specific, negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts.
What is an emotion?
A negative emotional state associated with anxiety, tension, and agitation.
What is guilt?
A desire to perform an activity to achieve an external goal.
What is extrinsic motivation?
What is a need?
A hormone secreted by the pancreas that controls glucose levels in the blood.
What is insulin?
Blends of primary emotions; they include remorse, guilt, submission, shame, and anticipation.
What are secondary emotions?
The brain part most responsible for our emotions.
What is the amygdala?
A desire to perform an activity because of the value or pleasure associated with it.
What is intrinsic motivation?
A psychological state that, by creating arousal, motivates an organism to engage in a behavior to satisfy a need.
What is a drive?
The part of the brain that controls hunger signals.
What is the hypothalamus?
A theory of emotion that says bodily responses are the basis for feeling emotions.
What is the James-Lange theory?
People use their current emotions to make decisions, judgments, and appraisals, even if they do not know what caused their emotions.
What is affect-as-information theory?
Anger, fear, sadness, disgust, and happiness are examples.
What are primary emotions?
A theory stating that people make inferences about their motives according to what seems to make the most sense.
What is self-perception theory?
A theory stating that the need for interpersonal attachments is a fundamental motive that has evolved for adaptive purposes.
A theory of emotion stating that the bodily response and emotion occur at the same time in different parts of the brain.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
Rules that are learned through socialization and that indicate what emotions are suitable in certain situations.
What are display rules?
An emotion regulation strategy in which you do or think about something other than the troubling activity or thought.
What is distraction?
A theory stating that performance increases with arousal until an optimal point and then decreases with additional arousal.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
Food preferences begin during this life stage.
What is in utero?
Excitation transfer can be explained by this theory of emotion.
What is the two-factor theory?
An emotion regulation strategy in which you directly alter your emotional reactions to an event by thinking about the event in more positive terms.
What is positive reappraisal?
Maslow's term for living to one's full potential, achieving personal dreams and aspirations.
What is self-actualization?