Motivation is the area of psychological science concerned with the factors that energize, or stimulate, behavior. It focuses on what produces behavior. Motives are things that drive you to finish tasks. Motives are related to needs because if you need something you are motivated to do it. Its related to arousal because your mind is telling you that its good and you want it so that motivates you more to get it. Its related to drive because you are motivated to satisfy a need. Homeosasis is related to motivation because your body is always motivated to keep equilibrium. Motivation is related to incentives because your are more motivated if you get something in return.
Discuss intrinsic and extrinsic and how the latter can replace the former.
Intrinsic motivation is motivation to perform an activity because of the value or pleasure associated with that activity, rather than for an apparent external goal or purpose. Extrinsic motivation is motivation to perform an activity because of the external goals toward which that activity is directed.
Discuss at least two major adaptive roles of emotion.
Emotion is feelings that involve subjectives evaluation, psychological processes, and cognitive beleifs. Emotions are adaptive because they prepare and guide behaviors when needed to like running from an deadly animal.
Discuss the major types of emotion that people feel and how there types are realted to each other.
The major types of emotion that people feel are aroused, negative, not aroused, positive and neutral.These major types of emotions are realted because of the circumplex map of emotion shows how they are all related.
Discuss the role in emotion of the amgydala and the pre frontal cortex.
The frontal cortex when damaged the person loses all emotion pretty mauch and the pre frontal cortex controls many different types of emotion.
Negative feedback in motivation.
In the brain, the hypothalamus regulates the body in order to create a state of homeostasis. When a person is cold their brain will send signals to the skeletal muscles to shiver in an attempt to warm the body and the person will be motivated to put on a sweater
Evidence for an optimal level of arousal.
According to the Yerkes-Dodson law, people operate best with some arousal. People are motivated to seek an optimal level of arousal which is demonstrated by a parabola (inverted U). Too little arousal causes us to become bored and too much arousal can lead to anxiety.
How can we set goals that we are able to attain?
Good goals are those that are challenging, because they encourage effort, persistence, and concentration. Being specific when making your goals also helps. Knowing exactly what is desired to achieve may help breaking large goals into smaller steps that help build up toward reaching a goal.
How and why flavor variety motivates eating.
By having a variety of flavors and larger quantities of these varieties cause rats and humans to eat more, which typically leads to obesity. Because of sensory-specific satiety, animals will stop eating quickly when they have just one type of food to eat. The part of the frontal lobe that assesses reward value of food increases activity when new foods are presented.
The hormones that affect sexual motivation.
Females and males have all the sexual hormones. Males have a higher level of androgen and females have more estrogen and progesterone. Testosterone is an androgen that drives sexual behavior. Oxytocin is another important hormone that is released during sexual arousal and orgasm, and is believed to promote feelings of love and attachment between partners.
Females and males have all the sexual hormones. Males have a higher level of androgen and females have more estrogen and progesterone. Testosterone is an androgen that drives sexual behavior. Oxytocin is another important hormone that is released during sexual arousal and orgasm, and is believed to promote feelings of love and attachment between partners.
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