Chapter 9 Psych

Factors that energize, direct, or sustain behavior

State of biological or social deficiences

• Maslow's pyramid of needs we must accomplish from the bottom up:
• 1. physiological (hunger, thirst, warmth, air, sleep)
• 2. Safety
• 3. Belonging and Love, acceptance, friendship
• 4. Esteem, good self opinion, accomplishments, reputation
• 5. Self Actualization

A state that is achieved when one's personal dreams and aspirations have been attained

psychological activation, such as increased brain activity, autonomic responses, sweating, or muscle tension

psychological state that motivates an organism to satisfy its needs

The tendency for bodily functions to maintain equilibrium

External stimuli that motivate behaviors (as opposed to internal drives)

performance increases with arousal until an optimal point, after which arousal interferes with performance

seek pleasure and avoid pain

performing an activity because of the external goals toward which that activity is directed

performing n activity because of the value or pleasure associated with that activity, not for external goals or purposes

people seldom are aware of their specific motives and instead draw inferences about their motivations according to what seems to make the most sense

desired outcome; usually a specific object or behavioral intention

people alter their behavior to attain personal goals

challenging, but not overly difficult, specific

expectation that your efforts will lead to success

the need for interpersonal attachments is a fundamental motivate that has evolved for adaptive purposes

tells you when to stop eating

tells you went to start eating

a pattern of physiological repsonses during sexual activity

Men and Women look for different qualities in their relationship partners because of gender-specific adaptive problems

feelings that invovled subjective evaluation, physiological processes, and cognitive beliefs

rules learned through socialization that dictate which emotions are suitable to given situations

bodily reactions that arise from the emotional evaluation of an action's consequences

evolutionary adaptive emotions that huamsn share across cultures; ones associated with specific biological and physical states

blends of primary emotions, including states such as remorse, guilt, submission, and anticipation

• a situation evokes a physiological response, and an emotional label; then emotion os 'felt'
• singer-schachter

stimulus leads to physical arousal which leads to an emotion

Stimulus happens; physical arousal and cognitive label of emotion occur simultaneously afterwards