Hunger
A preset natural body weight
What is set point?
The tendency of human beings to eat more in groups is motivation influenced by this human drive.
What is Hunger Drive?
The process by which humanist psychologists determine a patient's self-concept.
What are surveys?
Behavior motivated by the need to reduce drives such as hunger or thirst
What is drive reduction theory?
These types of foods are thought to be more delicious and are effective at activating our reward centers
What are calorie-dense, and nutrient-rich foods?
the need to be with others
What is the Socialization Drive?
This theory states that emotions are based upon external stimuli activating our autonomic nervous system and creating a physiological response prior to identifying an emotion
What is the James-Lange Theory?
The belief in one's own self-esteem, confidence, awareness, and power
What is Positive Self-Concept?
A motivated state caused by physiological deficit, such as lack of food or water
What is need?
Increases with stomach contractions
What is hunger?
A desire to perform an activity for its own sake
What is intrinsic motivation?
The theory in which our brain simultaneously initiates a physiological response and the conscious awareness of that emotion
What is Canon-Bard Theory?
Type of personality that are high achievers, competitive, impatient, multi-taskers, eat quicker
What is Type A?
The level of alertness, wakefulness, and activation caused by activity in the central nervous system
What is arousal theory?
What part of the brain is responsible for hunger
What is hypothalamus?
Where promising a reward for doing something we already like to do results in us seeing the reward as the motivation
What is Overjustification Effect?
The prevalence of a particular feeling over an extended period of time.
What is Mood?
What is self-actualization?
What are nature and nuture?
(Or what are genes/biology, and culture/society?)
This effect is described as the result of having a wide variety of foods available to eat, often having us over-eat beyond the point of satiation.
What is the Buffet-Effect?
Situations involving two positive options, only one of which we can have
What is approach-approach conflict?
(or motivational-conflict theory?)
The cognitive theory that argues our emotional experiences depend on our interpretation of situations.
What is Stanley-Singer Two-Factor Theory?
What is Reciprocal Determinism?