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Motivational Concepts
Drives and Incentives
Hunger
Appetite Hormones
Vocabulary
100
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
What is motivation
100
A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior.
What is incentives
100
A sugar that circulates in the blood giving energy, when low we feel hungry
What is glucose
100
secreted by the pancreas, control glucose levels
What is insulin
100
in arousal the tension state that motivates a person to do something
What is a drive
200
A complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned
What is instinct
200
Tendency to maintain to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry.
What is homeostasis
200
Part of the brain that controls hunger
What is hypothalumus
200
secreted by an empty stomach
What is ghrelin
200
First theory used to try to explain human motives and was replaced with the drive reduction theory
What is instinct theory
300
Most psychologists view human behavior as ________ and ___________
What is wants and needs
300
Idea that a psychological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy a need.
What is drive reduction theory
300
The sides of the hypothalumus
What is lateral hypothalumus
300
a hormone triggered and secreted by the hypothalumus
What is orexin
300
leads a behavior and gives it the energy to keep happening
What is motives
400
Instinct theory was replaced by _____________________
What is drive reduction theory
400
True or False? Some needs take more priority over others
What is true. Some needs do take priority over others, such as hunger and thirst.
400
a hunger arousing hormone
What is ghrelin
400
protein secreted by fat cells, decreases hunger
What is leptin
400
the body's resting rate of energy expenditure
What is basal metabolic rate
500
Instinct theory failed to explain _________ ___________
What is human motives
500
Who developed the hierarchy of needs?
What is Maslow
500
Part of the brain that depresses hunger
What is ventromedal hypothalumus
500
digestive tract hormone
What is PYY
500
point at which an individual's "weight thermostat" is set and when their weight falls below it an increase in hunger occurs.
What is set point