Final Jeopardy
Drives and Incentives
Arousal Theory
Hierarchy of Needs
Vocab
100

A positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior?

What is an incentive?

100

The two scientists who studied the relationship of arousal and performance

Who are Yerkes and Dodson?

100

A motivation theory in which needs are prioritized from survival-based needs to the needs for meaning

What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?

100

The idea that a physiological need creates an aroused state

What is drive reduction theory?

200

An aroused motivated state such as hunger or thirst

What is a drive?

200

A prime area of performance in which arousal and performance are equal

What is optimal performance?

200

Needs, such as the need for food and water

What are physiological needs?

200

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

What is motivation?

300

The goal of the process of drive reduction

What is homeostasis?

300

When motivated behaviors increase arousal, it creates this, which may cause us to further explore what we don't know.

What is curiosity?

300

In the middle of the hierarchy, a need to be loved and accepted

What is need for belonging?

300

Correlation does not equal (blank)

What is causation?

500

Everything in psychology has this type of approach to it

What is biopsychosocial?