Definitions
Biological Theory
Hunger
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Extra Credit
100

What are the needs, wants, interests, and desires that energizes and direct behavior.

What is motivation?

100

What type of behavior is patterned throughout a species and is UNLEARNED.

What is instinct?

100

Name TWO instinctive factors that motivate humans to eat.

What are grow, repair, and reserve?

100

How many levels are in Maslow's pyramid/hierarchy of needs?

What are five?

100

What type of motivation refers to a persons efforts to master a task?

What is achievement motivation?

200

What type of motivation is a desire to perform a behavior to obtain an external reward or avoid punishment.

Whi is extrinsic motivation?

200

What type of behavior is the idea that a physiological needs will create an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.

What is Drive Reduction Theory?

200

What type of sugar circulates in our bloodstream?

What is Glucose?

200

What are TWO basic physiological needs that all humans must have to achieve higher performance levels?

What are sleep, food, water, warmth, and rest?

200

What is defined as a disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence?

What is competitiveness?

300

What type of motivation is a desire to perform a behavior that originates within the individual

What is intrinsic motivation?

300

What is the ability of a living organism to maintain a stable internal environment, such as body temperature, blood sugar, and water levels, despite changes in its external environment?

What is homeostasis?

300

What part of the brain produces hunger signals?

What is the Lateral Hypothalamus?

300

After someone achieves prestige and a feeling of accomplishment, what is the next level of motivation that one can achieve?

What is Self Actualization?

300

One of the differences in achievement theory has been explained as people who are motivated to to feel worthy. What type of Motivation aspect is this?

What is Competence Motivation?

400

What origin of motivation is related to survival; breathing, eating, drinking, comfortable temperature, excretion, sleep

What is biological origins?

400

What is is called when humans are driven to some behaviors because they feel good; body functions best at a specific level of arousal?

What is Optimal Level Theory?

400

What part of the hypothalamus that can cause one to stop eating?

What is the Ventromedial?

400

Belongingness and Love are what level of motivation on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?

What is the third level?

400

What is the method discussed in class that athletes use to achieve a task?

What is Goal Setting, Self Talk, and Visualization?

500

What origin of motivation is related to group; autonomy, affiliation, dominance exhibition, order?

What is psychosocial origin?

500

What is it called when people are given extrinsic motivation to perform a task, the intrinsic motivation declines?

What is Over Justification Theory?

500

What is the body’s base rate of energy expenditure called?

What is the Basal Metobolic Rate?

500

What type of need is this scenario: you’re worried about losing your starting spot if you don’t play through pain. How does that fear impact your motivation?

What is safety needs?

500
One factor that influences motivation is interactional. What is the other?

What is situational?