Psychology: Motivation & Emotion Lecture 8

What is the study of the 'WHYs' of human behavior according to the lecture?

Which type of motivation involves performing an action for an external outcome separate from the person?

What term refers to the subjective feelings related to emotions?

According to the lecture, what activates or directs behavior in order to fulfill a goal?

What does the Latin word 'movere' mean?

Which type of motivation involves performing an action because the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in some internal manner?

Which theory of motivation suggests that humans have certain physiological needs that must be met periodically, such as hunger and thirst, called drives?

What theory of motivation focuses on the need for stimulation and suggests that people seek to maintain an optimal level of arousal?

In the context of motivation and emotion, which aspect refers to subjective feelings?

Which behavior is suggested by instinct theories to be inherited and species-specific?

Which theory of motivation suggests that people are motivated toward an optimal level of tension and seek to maintain it by increasing or decreasing stimulation?

In the context of motivation and emotion, what does drive reduction theory focus on avoiding?

What is the primary focus of instinct theories of motivation?

Which aspect of motivation and emotion involves thinking and expectation?

Which theory of motivation suggests that there are some inborn, genetic components to motivation and behaviors are inherited and species specific?

What is the main focus of arousal theory in the context of motivation?