Psych chapter 10- Motivation

Motivation

Directed behavior to goals

Homeostasis

State of equilibrium

Drive theory

Push

Incentive theory

Pull

Incentive

External goal has capacity to motivate behavior

Sensory specific Satiety

Variety of food→eat more

Set Point

Weight that body tries to stay at

Phases of sexual response

Excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

Refractory period

Body rests or recovers after orgasm

Continuum of sexual orientation

A scale of sexual orientation

Emotion

Feeling

Cognitive component of emotion

What you think

Physiological component of emotion

How your body reacts when you feel an emotion

Autonomic arousal

Body systems become more active during emotions

Galvanic skin response

Skin responds to emotions

Polygraph

Lie detector

James-Lange theory

You feel emotions because your body reacts first

Cannon-Bard theory

You feel the emotion and your body reacts at the same time