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A complex, inherited behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species. erited behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species | instinct |
A desire for significant accomplishment; for mastery of things, people, or ideas; and for attaining a high standard. | Achievement motivation |
A desire to perform a behavior because of promised rewards or threats of punishment. | Extrinsic motivation |
A desire to perform a behavior for its own sake and to be effective. | Intrinsic motivation |
A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal. | motivation |
A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state | homeostasis |
According to Maslow, the need to realize our full and unique potential | self-actualization |
An eating disorder characterized by episodes of overeating - usually of high calorie foods – followed by vomiting, use of laxatives, fasting, or excessive exercise | bulimia nervosa |
An eating disorder in which normal – weight people ( usually adolescent females ) have a distorted self- perception of being “fat” , put themselves on self – starvation regimens and become dangerously underweight ( 15 percent or more below normal: ; APA 2000) | anorexia nervosa |
Humanistic psychologist who developed the hierarchy of needs. | Abraham Maslow |
Maslow’s pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must be satisfied before higher- level safety needs and then psychological needs become active | hierarchy of needs |
Neo – Freudian who first established the concept of achievement motivation and developed important personality testing tools | Henry Murray |
The body’s resting rate at which we burn calories for energy | basal metabolic rate |
The idea that a physiological need creates a state of tension (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need | drive-reduction theory |
The point at which an individual’s “weight thermostat” is supposedly set; when the body falls below weight , increased hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight | set point |
The theory that a degree of psychological arousal helps perform, but only to a point | Yerkes-Dodson law |
American physiologist who concluded that physiology arousal and emotional experience occur simultaneously. | Walter Cannon |
American psychologist who believed our awareness of physiological response leads to our experience of emotion. | William James |
American psychologist who concluded that some emotional reactions involve no deliberate thinking and cognition is not always necessary for emotion. | Robert Zajonc |
American psychologist who concluded that some emotional reactions do not require conscious thought. | Richard Lazarus |
American psychologist who concluded that emotion requires a cognitive label of physiological arousal. | Stanley Schacter |
The cultural rules governing how and when a person may express emotion. | Display rules |
The part of the nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart); its sympathetic division arouses, and its parasympathetic division clams. | Autonomic nervous system |
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion. | Cannon-Bard Theory |
The theory that to experience emotion we must be physically aroused and must cognitively label the arousal. | Two-factor theory |
The theory that we experience emotion because we are aware of our bodily response to an emotion-arousing stimulus. | James-Lange theory |
Whole-organism responses, involving physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience. | emotions |