Motivation and Emotion: Understanding the Brain and Behavior

1. AP Day Review You’ve got this!

2. A person must act to reduce a state of tension ands return to homeostasis

3. Drive reduction theory

4. Level 3 of Maslow’s hierarchy

5. Love and belonging

6. I make you feel hunger and motivate you to eat

7. Lateral hypothalamus

8. I am motivation that involves behaviors that are personally rewarding and help fulfill one’s beliefs

9. Intrinsic Motivation

10. Information retrieval is a problem solving strategy that requires only the recover of information from …

11. Long term memory

12. General rule • We rely on information that is more prominent and easily recalled • Advertisers use us to sell more products

13. Availability Hueristic

14. I am the first form of speech, can you say “A”

15. Phonemes

16. One word sentences represent this stage of speech • most kids under two use me

17. Holophrastic speech

18. I proposed and strongly believe that children are born with a language acquisition device, an internal mechanism for processing speech that is wired to the brain

19. Noam Chomsky

20. I goed to the store is an example of…

21. Overregularization

22. Functional fixedness is the inability to see an object having _________________ uses

23. Multiple

24. Interpreting the physiological change first before having an emotion is…

25. James-Lange

26. This theory on emotion stresses that it isn’t just physiological changes that cause emotion, but rather our emotion relies heavily on our PRERCEPTION of the physiological change • Interaction of two factors

27. Schachter & Singer

28. According to this theory its all about physiological arousal and the difficulty of the task • Low arousal is better for success on a difficult task • High arousal helps you perform better on a easy task

29. Yerkes-Dodson Law

30. They believe our emotion results from the physiological changes and the brain’s interpretation happening simultaneously

31. Cannon and Bard

32. The traditional attitudes society designates to both males and females • Like girls are patient and kind • Boys are rough and tough

33. Gender Roles

34. This theory of motivation refers to environmental factors, such as external stimuli that motivate a person to behave in a certain way • Like recognition or money

35. Incentive Theory

36. This scenario happens when you are facing a conflict with one positive consequence and one negative consequence

37. Approach-Avoidance

38. This system controls a large amount of our emotional stability

39. Limbic System

40. This brains structure deals with feelings and having emotional responses

41. Hypothalamus

42. This structure is the brain’s “switchboard” • it connects areas of the cerebral cortex that are involved in sensory perception and movement with other parts of the brain and spinal cord that also have a role in sensation and movement • also controls sleep and awake states of consciousness.

43. Thalamus

44. I am the lobe that deals with speech and auditory control

45. Temporal Lobe

46. I am the lobe that deals with sensation and touch

47. Parietal Lobe

48. I am the brain structure that controls emotional memories • processes emotions such as fear, anger and pleasure • responsible for determining what memories are stored and where the memories are stored in the brain

49. Amygdala

50. Lobe involved in movement, decision-making, problem solving, and planning • One main division of this is the prefrontal cortex which is responsible for personality expression and the planning of complex cognitive behaviors