Social Psychology & Personality

Instincts

Uncontrollable behavior triggered by a stimuli, causes predictable movement

Drive-Reduction theory

behavior is encouraged by restoring homeostasis such as hunger and thirst

Ghrelin

“Growling Stomach”, hormone that stimulates appetite

Leptin

“Last Bite”, hormones made by fat cells that shows hunger in an indication that we are full

• THINK OF A INFLATION FETISH

Belongingness

human desire to form close relationships with others

Arousal theory

people are motivated by to optimize level of alertness when it is low

Yerkes-Dodson law

Performance increases with Alertness, but you can’t be too aroused or else the performance decreases

Sensation-Seeking theory

A person’s motivation to seek out for intense experience

Thrill Seeking

Component of sensation seeking theory, individuals seeks for the thrill and intense experience

Adventure seeking

desire for new challenges, physical activities

• them ap students

Disinhibition

Seek out social thrills that are blocked by social norms

• Screaming for your favorite team is normal in a stadium but in a street it is weird

Boredom Susceptibility

Discipline to unable to be repetitive, so seeks out for new experiences

• Jacob Shin pic related because he tried to zerk off in public, instead of being repetitive and zerk off in his room all day, he did it… IN SCHOO!

Incentive Theory

Behavior is encouraged by rewards like praise, money or benefits

Self-determination theory

people are motivated by either internal or external rewards

intrinsic motivation

doing activities for your own self, driven by satisfaction, rewards, or awards

Extrinsic motivation

doing activities not for yourself but for praise, rewards, grades, and money

Lewin’s Motivational Conflicts theory

Describes people’s struggle to when they are making decisions

Approach-Approach conflicts

When you are offered two great outcomes/choices

• Usually lead to questioning what to pick

Avoidance-Avoidance conflict

when you are offered 2 negative outcome/choices

• starts to see which to avoid

Approach-Avoidance conflict

Offered one good outcome but you are faced with a negative consequence