(M&E) Marked quiz weeks 1-3

Cards (28)

  • Incentive: our motivated response changes as a result of the consequences of our responses,to a situational cue.
  • Positive Punishment: introduction of an unpleasant stimulus.
  • Negative Punishment: removal of pleasant stimulus.
  • Extrinstic Motivation: motivation arising from external factors, such as reward, instrumental value, or fear or punishment.
  • Instrinsic Motivation: undertaking a task for the internal satisfaction.
  • Motivated Brain: Pleasure, value, goal
  • Motivated behaviours: reward driven approach, value-based decision, goal-directed control.
  • Amygdala: responsible for emotional processing.
  • Nucleus accumbens: part of the ‘reward system’.
  • Basal Ganglia: turning motivation into behaviour and action.
  • ACC (Anterior Cingulate Cortex): decision making and cognitive control.
  • Neurotransmitters/Chemical messangers: dopamine, glutamate, acetylcholine.
  • Cortisol: stress hormone
  • Oxytocon: love hormone.
  • Dispruted motivation: damage to the ACC can contribute to ‘akinectic mutism: loss of motivation to move/speak.
  • Incentives: external factors that can influence people motivation. (reinforcement)
  • Classical Conditioning: Implicit and Unconscious
  • Unconditioned Stimulus/UCS: stimulus that tiggers a response prior to conditioning. (Food)
  • Uncondtioned Response/ UCR: automatic response to the UCS. (Salivating when see food)
  • Conditioned stimulus/CS: stimulus paired with the UCS to elicit a response. (Bell)
  • Conditioned Response/CR: automatic response to the CS after conditioning. (salivating when hear bell)
  • Operant Conditioning: direct and conscious.
  • Operant Conditioning: behaviour that is rewarded will intensify, behaviour that in punished will weaken. (B.F Skinner)
  • Negative Reinforcement: remove
  • Punished reinforcemen: reduces
  • Positive reinforcement: added
  • Modelling: we can acquire new skills/learn how to interact with the world around us by watching others. Motivated if socially desirable.
  • Motivation: the process whereby goal-directed behaviours are initiated and sustained.