All of the processes that initiate, direct and sustain behavior
What is motivation?
100
An emotion-provoking stimulus is transmitted simultaneously to the cerebral cortex
Provides the conscious mental experience of the emotion
What is the Canon-Bard Theory?
100
Chronic disorder characterized by repeated and uncontrolled episodes of binge eating
What is bulimia nervosa?
100
Includes intimact, passion, and commitment
What is consummate love?
100
Term used to explain why spiders spin webs and birds fly south in the winter
What is instinct?
Fun Fact: No true instincts motivate human behavior
200
States of tension or arousal that arise from a biological need or are unlearned
What are primary drives?
200
This brain structure plays an important role in emotion
What is the amygdala?
FUN FACT: Sad feelings are processed in the left hemisphere, while all other emotions are mostly in the right hemisphere
200
A measure of weight relative to height
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
Challenge question: What factors might make BMI INVALID for an individual?
200
He really likes "tirarchic" theories.
Who is Sternberg?
200
Natural tendency of the body to maintain a balanced internal state to ensure physical survival
What is homeostasis?
FUN FACT: a drive is created to restore the balance when its out of whack
300
Conditions and processes responsible for arousal, direction, magnitude, and maintenance of effort on the job
What is work motivations?
300
The idea that the muscular movements involved in certain facial expressions produce the corresponding emotions
What is the facial-feedback hypothesis?
300
An overwhelming, irrational fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, compulsive dieting to the point of starvation, and excessive weight loss
What is anorexia nervosa?
300
Suggests that people are motivated to maintain an optimal level of alertness and physical and mental activation
What is arousal theory?
400
Activities motivated without external rewards; activities done for the joy of doing them
What is extrinsic motivation?
400
Emotional feelings result when an individual becomes aware of a physiological response to an emotion-provoking stimulus
What is the James-Lange Theory?
400
One problem with this weight loss strategy is that the metabolic rate slows down to conserve remaining fat stores because fewer calories are being consumed
What is dieting?
400
passion — or ‘love at first sight’ — can disappear quickly
What is infatuated love?
400
Performance on a task is best when the arousal level is appropriate to the difficulty of the task
What is Yerkes-Dodson Law?
Double you money: How much arousal is optimal for complex tasks?
500
An external stimulus that motivates behavior
What is an incentive?
500
Two-factor theory stating that for an emotion to occur, there must be:
1) Physiological arousal
2) A cognitive interpretation or explanation of the arousal that labels it as an emotion
What is the Schachter-Singer Theory?
500
The rate at which the body burns calories to produce energy
Influenced by genes
What is metabolic rate?
500
commitment with out passion or intimacy
What is empty love?
500
An internal state of tension or arousal that is brought about by an underlying need and that an organism is motivated to reduce