Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion

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Leptin

Leptin

________**: a hormone that, when released into the bloodstream, signals the hypothalamus that the body has had enough food and reduces the appetite while increasing the feeling of being full.

Peak Experience

________**: according to Maslow, times in a persons life during which self- actualization is temporarily achieved.

SDT

Self- Determination Theory (________)**: theory of human motivation in which the social context of an action has an effect on the type of motivation existing for the action.

innate patterns of behavior

Instincts**: the biologically determined and ________ that exist in both people and animals.

James

________- Lange Theory of Emotion**: theory in which a physiological reaction leads to the labeling of an emotion.

Drive

________- Reduction Theory**: approach to motivation that assumes behavior arises from physiological needs that cause internal drives to push the organism to satisfy the need and reduce tension and arousal.

Metabolic Rate

Basal ________ (BMR)**: the rate at which the body burns energy when the organism is resting.

Weight Set Point

________**: the particular level of weight that the body tries to maintain.

Display Rules

________**: learned ways of controlling displays of emotion in social settings.

psychological tension

Drive**: a(n) ________ and physical arousal arising when there is a need that motivates the organism to act in order to fulfill the need and reduce the tension.