species and is unlearned 3. Human innate tendency such as infant’s rooting and sucking C. Drives and Incentives 4. Drive-reduction Theory: the idea that physiological need creates an aroused tensions state (a drive) that motives an organism to satisfy the need a) Drives the need of eating or drinking b) When need increases so does drive 5. Homeostasis: tendency to maintain a constant internal state c) Goal of drive reduction
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Motivation Arousal: * A person’s state of alertness and mental and physical activation. Arousal Theory: * People are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal. * The optimal level is different for all of us. Stimulus Motives: * Motives that cause us to increase stimulation. * Appear to be unlearned‚ * Curiosity‚ exploration‚ and play that occur when your arousal is too low. Yerkes-Dodson Law Yerkes-Dodson Law: * Principle that performance on a task is best
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PSY 320: Human Motivation Final Exam Name: Instructions: This exam contains 50 questions. Each question is worth ½ point. Please select the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. There is only one best answer although some answers may appear similar. Please make your choice by changing the font color of your answer for each question. Your choice must be clear. If no answer is marked‚ or if your choice is unclear‚ the qu estion will be marked as incorrect. SAMPLE:
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• Did your goal involve the behavioral activation system (BAS) or the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and why? Was your goal more approach- or avoidance-oriented and why? • Do you think that your motives contributed to your outcome? How and why? Learning • How did you go about trying to change your behavior? Did you use any of the behavior learning strategies that we discussed in class such as classical or operant conditioning? • How did you
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friendship and love‚ security‚ and physical needs. With the exception of the lower (physiological) needs‚ if these "deficiency needs" are not met‚ the body gives no physical indication but the individual feels anxious and tense. In other words‚ the hierarchy level of need moves upward as soon as the previous level of need is satisfied. Physical needs are those that are necessary for sustaining life. These have to be met before the individual is able to expend energy working on other needs. If you don’t
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Instructor: Pamela Poynter January 24‚ 2006 Maslow and Jung: Life and the Workplace We work‚ strive‚ succeed‚ and sometimes we fail. What drives us to succeed‚ or in some cases keeps us from success? Perhaps a better understanding of our motives‚ and the motives of our colleagues would help us make the personality changes we need to succeed. The way we interact with others in the workplace and our personal life may be improved. The Freudian theories opened our minds to many of our odd behaviors
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Abstract This paper will discuss motivation and emotion. More specifically‚ it will inspect motivation‚ motives and other associated hypothetical perceptions. The topic of emotions will also be discussed along with the elements and components related to it as well as some of the theoretical positions. Motivation and Emotions Motivation Motivation involves thinking about why some things are done. Some questions to consider for example include the reason that students attend class‚ the reason
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bureaucracy helps ensure that thousands of people work together in compatible ways by defining everyone’s roles within a hierarchy. Bureaucracy is an organization that is structured with regulations set in place to control activity. The bureaucratic stricture is usually implemented in large organizations and governments. It is represented by an assembly of knowledge‚ power‚ and Hierarchy. The Knowledge of the organization consists of the technical expertise and the understandings necessary to carry out
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thinking is defined as “thinking independently and being mindful of the effect of one’s behavior on achieving goals” (Daft‚ 2010‚ p. 424). This literary analysis will demonstrate‚ and examine‚ two profoundly different types of leadership. The hierarchy of needs and the two sources from which power are derived will also be discussed and demonstrated as to how these concepts apply to A Jury of Her Peers. Critical thinking principles will be utilized in the analysis of A Jury of Her Peers‚ as well
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Contents Introduction 3 Scope of Study 3 Literature Review 3 2.1 The concept of motivation 4 2.2 Definition of Motivation. 4 2.3 Significance of Motivati 4 2.4 Motivation Process. 5 2.5 Theories of Motivation. 5 2.5.3 Abraham H Maslow Need Hierarchy or Deficient theory of Motivation. 6 2.5.4 J.S Adams Equity Theory 9 2.5.5 Vrooms Expectation Theory 9 2.5.6 Two Factor Theory 10 2.5.7 Herzberg ’s two-factor theory 10 2.5.8 McClelland ’s acquired needs theory 11 2.5.9 McClelland’s Achievement
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