Motivation/Emotion vocab review

Both psychological & physiological reactions to stressors: situations, events or stimuli that produce uncomfortable feelings or anxiety. (like how you feel about this quiz)

• stress
• set point
• instinct theory

Situations involving two positive options, only one of which we can have.  

• approach-avoidance
• approach-approach
• avoidance-avoidance

Emotion theory that says emotions developed because of their adaptive value, allowing the organism to avoid danger and survive.

• Drive reduction theory
• incentive theory
• evolutionary theory of emotion

Where promising a reward for something we already like doing results in the reward becoming the main motivation and we don't enjoy doing the activity.

• overjustification effect
• incentive theory
• arousal theory

motivation theory which focuses on how secondary motives like money motivates us

• drive reduction theory
• arousal theory
• incentive theory

Situations involving two negative options, one of which we must choose.  

• approach-approach
• avoidance-approach
• avoidance-avoidance

Emotion theory which states conscious experience of emotion results from one's awareness of autonomic arousal. 

• James-Lange theory
• Schacter-Singer theory
• Opponent process theory

Desire to perform an activity for its own sake.

• extrinsic motivation
• drive reduction theory
• intrinsic motivation

Motivation theory that focuses on internal states of tension such as hunger or thirst.  Motivation is to achieve homeostasis.

• Drive reduction theory
• incentive theory
• arousal theory

Motivation theory that focuses each person's optimal level of arousal necessary to perform tasks.  

• incentive theory
• arousal theory
• drive reduction theory