Motivation Theories
Inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned.
What is: Instincts
causes us to participate in an activity for our own enjoyment rather than for any concrete, tangible reward that it will bring us.
What is: Intrinsic motivation
Body weight that is more than 20% above the average weight for a person of a particular height.
Obesity
The belief that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation.
what is James-Lange Theory
Feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior.
What is Emotions
Motivational tension, or arousal, that energizes behavior to fulfill a need.
What is Drive
causes us to do something for money, a grade, or some other concrete, tangible reward.
What is Extrinsic motivation
Kind of sugar, regulates feelings of hunger.
what is Glucose
The belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus.
what is Cannon-Bard Theory
important in experience of emotions-links perception of an emotion-producing stimulus and the recall of that stimulus later.
what is Amygdala
The belief that we try to maintain certain levels of stimulation and activity.
what is Arousal Approaches to Motivation
A student practices basketball after school because they love playing the game.
What is Intrinsic motivation
Hormone that leads the body to store excess sugar in the blood as fats and carbohydrates.
what is carbohydrates.
The belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation, based on environmental cues.
what is Schachter-Singer Theory
plays important role in the consolidation of memories.
Hippocampus
Motivation stems from the desire to obtain valued external goals.
what is Incentive Approaches to Motivation
An athlete practices to get a college scholarship.
what is Extrinsic motivation
Hormone that communicates to the brain feelings of hunger.
what is ghrelin
Body first →
what is James-Lange
thus scientists believe emotion-related stimuli can be processed and responded to almost simultaneously.
what is Neural pathways connect the amygdala, visual cortex, and hippocampus
Motivation is a product of people’s thoughts, expectations, and goals.
Cognitive Approaches to Motivation
Seem to work in a complimentary way rather than contradictory manner.
What is Applying different approaches to motivation
particular level of weight that body strives to maintain (weight thermostat)
what is Weight Set Point
Body + thinking
what is Schachter-Singer
Hypothesis that facial expressions not only reflect emotional experience but also help determine how people experience and label emotions.
what is Facial-feedback hypothesis