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Psychology Chapter 11 Motivation

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All factors that arouse, direct, and maintain behaivor toward a goal.Motivation
Examples that do not motivate behaivorReflexes
A behaivor chacteristic of a species that is processed by ALL members of a species.Instinct
Are instincts learned?No
Give example of a instinctSpiders build webs
The theory develpoed by Clark Hull, that behaivor is motivated by the need to reduce drives such as sex or hungar.Drive- Reduction Theory
An example of a Needfood or water
An example of a driveThirst motivates drinking. Hungar motivates eating. Sex drive motivates sexual relations.
A motivated state caused by psychological deprivation, such as food or water.Need
A state of psychological tension induced by a need.Drive
A steady state of phychological equiliberium, that does not change much. Give a example.Homeostasis Body's normal level of water
An example of a primary drive.Thirst
An example of a secondary drive.Working for money
An external stimulas that pulls an indivual toward a goal. A property of goals that direct behaivor.incentive
The increasing tendancy to peform a particular behaivor as a function of the time since it was last performed.Intrinsic Motivation
The princable that the relationship between arousal and performance is best represented by an inverted U-shaped curve.Yerkes-Dodson Law
When some motives have priority over others. Arrangement of needs in oder of their motivational priority, ranging from phychological needs, to the needs for self-actualization and trandence.Hierarchy of Needs
A self starving syndrome. People view themselves as fat, when they are skinny. They do not eat enough.Anneroxia
The binge and purge syndrome. Have fear of becomming fat and are upsest with food.Bulimia Nervosa
Inhibits eating and induces eating.VMH
The motive to maintain an optimal level of psychological activation.Arousal Motive
Concluded that stomach contraction can cause hungar.Cannon and Washburn Experiment
Internal biological disturbances which result from natural tissues needs, such as food,water,air, sex, pain, and temperture regulations.Primary Drives
Triggered by another stimuli. A stimulas which serves to elict a response orginally evoked by another stimuli.Sign Stimuli
Drives that are physiological in nature.Primary Drives
Are secondary drives learned?Yes


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