AP Psychology / Unit 4: Social Psychology and Personality
4.6 Motivation
Notes
- Drive-reduction theory: needs create drives to restore homeostasis.
- Arousal theory and the Yerkes-Dodson law (moderate arousal is best).
- Maslow's hierarchy: physiological → safety → belonging → esteem → self-actualization.
- Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. Hunger: ghrelin (hunger), leptin (fullness).
Practice
Performing best with moderate stress, not too little or too much, is the:
Inverted U.
Reading for fun with no reward is:
Internal satisfaction.
The hormone that signals hunger:
From the stomach.
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