Motivation Exam One | EXP 4304 - Motivation, Quizzes of Psychology

Download Motivation Exam One | EXP 4304 - Motivation and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Motivation DEFINITION 1 The study of motivation concerns those processes that give behavior its energy and direction. TERM 2 Energy DEFINITION 2 Implies that behavior has strength - that it is relatively strong, intense, and persistent. TERM 3 Direction DEFINITION 3 Implies behavior has purpose - that it is aimed or guided toward achieving some particular goal or outcome. TERM 4 Motives (Internal) DEFINITION 4 An internal process that energizes and directs behavior, therefore a general term to identify the common ground shared by needs, cognitions, and emotions. TERM 5 Needs (Internal Motives) DEFINITION 5 Conditions within the individual that are essential and necessary for the maintenance of life and for the nurturance of growth and well-being. Can be Biological, Psychological, or Social. TERM 6 Cognitions (Internal Motives) DEFINITION 6 Mental events, such as thoughts, beliefs, plans, goals, expectations, and the self-concept. TERM 7 Emotions (Internal Motives) DEFINITION 7 Short-lived subjective - physiological - functional - expressive phenomena that orchestrate how we react adaptively to the important events in our lives. Can be organized and orchestrated through four interrelated aspects of experiences: Feelings, Physiological Preparedness, Function, and Expression. TERM 8 Feelings (emotions) DEFINITION 8 Subjective, verbal descriptions of emotional experience. TERM 9 Physiological Preparedness (emotions) DEFINITION 9 How our body physically mobilizes itself to meet situational demands. TERM 10 Function (emotions) DEFINITION 10 What specifically we want to accomplish at the moment.