Chapter 9 Questions

Topics
1. Negative feedback effect is one that terminates what started it. In motivation it would be forexample being over weight so that would modivate you to excersise and lose the weight.
2.  Yerkes Dosdon Law states that aroudal increases performance to an optimal point. Optimum is found in between point of arousal. For example to low of motivation is not good and to high is not good finding just the right amount of motivation makes an up an optimum. Not everyones is the same. 
3. We can set goal that we can attain by breaking down larger goals in to a series of smaller ones. We can use self-regulation by changing or altering our behaviors to attain a goal.
4. Flavor variety motivates eating by creating more options for us to choose from. The more options we have the more we tend to eat. For example a buffet line would lead to consuming more food because of all the different choices available.
5. There are four major hormones involved in arousal, testosterone, estrogen, progestrone, and oxytocin. Testosterone is found mainly in the male testes, estrogen and progestrone is found in the female ovaries and oxytocin is in the pituitary. Testosterone and oxytocin are more involved in sexual arousal.
Questions
1. Motivation is what gets people to do things, draws them into ation. Needs comes into play with motivation for example at the biological level. If a person is thirsty they need something to drink therefore they will be motivation to get something to drink to satify that need. There are other levels of motivation, for example social level. The need to be with other people or around other people, socailizing. Needs tend to lead to some actinon that encuorages the behavior that satisfys the need. Needs lead to a drive, what encourages the behavior that satisfys the need.
2.Intrinsic motivation is what we do for self satisfaction or pleasure. Doing something for its own sake. Extinsic motivation is what we do in order to get something else a reward of sorts.  For example playing a game that you like would be intrinsic motivation. While going to work would be extrinsic motivation because you may not necessarly like to go to work but you do it for the money.
3. Two major roles of emotion would be feelings and cognitive beliefs. Things that we experience and how we feel about them would be involved with emotions. How or what we think about a person or experience would also involve emotion. What we experience can cause us to have a positive or negative emotion or both.
4. There are four major types of emotion that people feel. They may feel arousal, non arousal, positive or negative emotions. Arousal would be emotions that motivate you to do something. Non arousal emotions would be the opisite, they would lead you to not be motivated. Then there is positive emotions ones that make you feel good or happy. Opisite of that would be negative emotions, ones that make you feel sad or bad.
5. Emotion plays a role in the amygdala. The amygdala is where the emotion processing occurs. It is what generates imediate emotional and behavioral reactions to a stimuli. The prefrontal cortex also plays a role in emotion. The left prefrontal cortex deals with more positive emotions while the right deal with more negative emotions.