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Motivation
Emotion
Obedience
Theories
Miscellaneous
100
The need or desire that energizes and directs behavior told a goal
What is Motivation?
100
Whole-organism responses involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience
What is Emotion?
100
Tendency to comply with orders, implied or real, from a perceived figure of authority
What is obedience?
100
Idea that a physiological need creates a sense of tension that motivates an organism to satisfy that need.
What is Drive-Reduction Theory?
100
Conveying meaning through actions as opposed to spoken words.
What is Non-Verbal Communication?
200
Eating disorder characterized by binge eating and purging (forced vomiting or laxative use)
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
200
Inherited complex behaviors found throughout a species.
What are instincts?
200
Adjusting behavior or thinking to coincide with a group idea or standard
What is conformity?
200
Theory that a degree of psychological arousal helps performance but only to a point
What is the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
200
Tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request
What is Foot-in-the-Door Phenomena?
300
Eating disorder characterized by lack of eating and excessive exercise due to distorted self-perceptions
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
300
The brain part that regulates fear and hunger
What is the Hypothalamus?
300
Belief or feeling that predisposed someone to respond in certain ways to objects, people, and events
What is attitude?
300
Theory of acting to reduce the discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent.
What is Cognitive Dissonance Theory?
300
The idea that the longer a person acts a certain way, the more likely they begin to feel that way as well.
What is the Role-Play Effect?
400
Motivation stemming from the promise of rewards or fear of punishment.
What is Extrinsic?
400
The body's desire to maintain a balanced or constant internal state.
What is Homeostasis?
400
He conducted an experiment on the effect of role-playing on obedience at Stanford University
Who is Philip Zimbardo?
400
Theory of Emotion that pairs physical arousal with a cognitive label to produce an emotion.
What is the Schacter-Two Factor Theory?
400
The idea that performance increases in the presence of others.
What is Social Facilitation?
500
Motivation stemming from the desire to succeed or accomplish interesting tasks.
What is Intrinsic?
500
The 4th level of Maslow's Hierarchy.
What is Self-Esteem?
500
He created an obedience experiment using varying levels of shocks administered by the research participant.
Who is Stanley Milgram?
500
A desire for significant accomplishment and attaining a high standard and mastery of ideas, things or people
What is Achievement Motivation?
500
The top level of Maslow's Hierarchy.
What is Self-Actualization?