Theories of Motivation
The force that moves people to behave, think, and feel the way they do...
Motivation
What is released by fat cells?
Leptin
Who was the humanistic theorist who proposed hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
Feeling or affect that can involve a fast heartbeat, conscious experience, and behavioral expression
What can be experienced as negative emotion?
Disease, Heart Attack, Emotion
What is the innate (unlearned) biological pattern of behavior assumed to be universal throughout a species?
Instinct
What is the single largest risk factor for disability, disease, and death?
What is the highest and most elusive of Maslow's needs?
Self-actualization
A system that takes messages to and from body's internal organs, monitoring such processes as breathing, heart rate, and digestion
Autonomic nervous system
What is linked to lower levels of pain and disease?
Positive Emotion
In this Theory of Motivation, psychologists emphasize how human motivation is rooted in evolutionary theory...
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Which eating disorder involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation?
Anorexia Nervosa
Who was the psychologist who studied delayed gratification in children, known as the Stanford marshmallow experiments>
Walter Mischel
Also called a lie detector test, this machine monitors changes in the body such as heart rate and breathing
Polygraph
What research on the heritability of well-being has tended to show that a substantial portion of well-being differences among people can be explained by
Genetics
The aroused state of tension that occurs because of a physiological need is ...
Drive
Which eating disorder is characterized by recurrent episodes of eating more food in a short period of time?
Binge-eating disorder
What are the 3 basic organism needs stated by the self-determination theory?
Competence, relatedness, and autonomy
This theory states that emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in the environment.
James Lang Theory
Heritability estimates for happiness ranges from ___ to ___ percent.
50 to 80 percent
A ___ is a deprivation that energizes the drive to eliminate or reduce deprivation
Who conducted an experiment that revealed a close association between stomach contractions and hunger?
Walter Cannon and A.L. Washburn
What refers to the belief that you have the competence to accomplish a goal or task?
Self-efficacy
Theory that states emotion and physiological reactions occur simultaneously
Cannon Bard Theory
TRUE OR FLASE: A person is not necessarily doomed to an unhappy life, even if the person has particularly miserable parents.
True