1Motivation
Need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
2Drive Reduction Theory
Idea that a need creates a drive that motivated an organism to satisfy it
3Homeostasis
Balence or constant internal state
4Yerks Dodson Law
Performance increases with arousal up to a point which then decreases
5Optimal Arousal
Motivated behaviors increase arousal
6Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
Pyramid of human needs, begining with physiological needs that must be met before higher level, saftey needs.
7Glucose
Sugar thats in your blood stream used as fuel for energy. When its low you get hungry.
8Basal Metabolic Rate
Bodys resting rate of energy burning
9Incentive Theory of Motivation
How people are motivated by incentives
10Self Actualization
Top on pyramid of needs, the process by which a person reaches their full potential.
11Set Point
Weight thermostat. When weight is lower junger rises and metabolism decreases.
12Lateral Hypothalamus
Makes your hungry
13Ventromedial Hypothalamus
Stops hunger, makes you full.
14Ghrelin
Hormone, is caused by an empty stomach, says im hungry
15Orexin Vs Leptin
1. Hunger triggering horemone sent by the hypothalamus 2. Protein Horemone from fat cells. causes brain to increase metabolism and decrease hunger
16Insulin
Pancreas horemone controling blood glucose, furnace.
17PYY
Digestive tract horemone says im not hungry.
18Unit bias
Tendency for people to want to complete a unit of a task
19Obesity
more fat, bigger weight
20Sexual Response Cycle and Phases
The 4 stages of sexual Response. Excitement-genitals engorged with blood, Plateau-peak excitement breathing, pulse and blood pressure increase, orgasm-bpm of 70-115 orgasm facilitating conception, Resolution-Body cools down.
21Estrogen
sex horemone higher in women then men contributing with female characteristics and ovulation and sexual receptivity
22Testosterone
both male and female. more in male to stimulate the growth of penis in fetus and male sex.
23Affiliation Needs
the need to fit in or be part of a group
24Self Esteem
persons opinion of themselves including abilities and or limitations.
25Prefrontal Cortex
controls and regulates thoughts, actions, and emotional responses to stress
26Ostracism
feeling ignored and or excluded from a group or event
27Analytical cortex
activated by harmful and contextual stimuli and is involved in pain process
28Narcissism
Self esteem gone awry, self important self focused and self promoting. Center of attention
29Emotions
response of the whole organism involving physiological arousal, expressive behavior, and consious experience.
30James Lange theory
our biological arousal makes your emotion
31Cannon Bard Theory
Biological and and experience emotion is triggerd simultaneously.
32Schater Two Factor Theory
to experience emotion one needs to be physically aroused and needs to cognitively label the arousal.
33Cognitive Appraisal
Labeling/ interpretation of stimuli
34Autonomic Nervous System
controls involuntary processes, controling heat rate, blood pressure, lungs, sexual arousal, and digestive tract.
35Sympathetic Nervous System
controls flight or fight, when threaten the SNS prepares body to fight goving bursts of enrgy under danger.
36Parasympathetic Nervous System
relaxs body after flight or fight
37Spillover Effect
How arousal can spill over from one event to another. You can basically catch someone elses emotion
38Facial Feedback
tendency for facial muscles to trigger corresponding feelings when activated.
39Behavior Feedback
tendency for how you behave to correspond to how you feel. Walk slouchy feel down.
40Stress
proces of how we perceive and respond to events called stressors that we appraise as threatening or challenging
41Eustress vs Distress
1. is positive stress thats motivating 2. is negative stress that negatively impact a person
42General Adaptation Syndrome
Concept saying the bodys adaptive response to stress in three phases, alarm, resistance, and exhaustion. An event happens that triggers your SNS so you enter the alarm stage, entering flight or fight. Then on resistance your adrenal glands horemones putting you on a peak of attention. Then exhaustion alertness comes down weakening your immune system.
43Tend and Befriend Response
under stress people (women) provide support to others in search for support from others
44Psychoneuroimmunology
Study of how your body, neural system and endocrine processes together affct the immune system and health.
45Coronary Heart Disease
Clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle , leading cause of death in developed countries
46Type A vs Type B
1. Anger prone people, competitive. 2. calm people