Flashcards: Motivation

Laziness (also called indolence) is a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act or exert oneself.

Optimism is a mental attitude.

Morale (also known as esprit de corps (French pronunciation: ​[ɛspʀi də kɔʀ])) is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

Libido (/lᵻˈbiːdoʊ/), colloquially known as sex drive, is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual activity.

Self-actualization is a term that has been used in various psychology theories, often in slightly different ways.

An agitator is a person who actively supports some ideology or movement with speeches and especially actions.

Passive-aggressive behavior is the indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, stubbornness, sullen behavior, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.

Psychological resilience is defined as an individual's ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions.

Hunger and satiety are sensations.

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Dopamine (contracted from 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays several important roles in the brain and body.

The term burnout in psychology was coined by Herbert Freudenberger in his 1974 Staff burnout, presumably based on the 1960 novel A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene, which describes a protagonist suffering from burnout.

Job design (also referred to as work design or task design) is a core function of human resource management and it is related to the specification of contents, methods and relationship of jobs in order to satisfy technological and organizational requirements as well as the social and personal requirements of the job holder.

Work motivation "is a set of energetic forces that originate both within as well as beyond an individual's being, to initiate work-related behavior, and to determine its form, direction, intensity, and duration" Understanding what motivates an organization's employees is central to the study of I–O psychology.

Goal setting involves the development of an action plan designed to motivate and guide a person or group toward a goal.

An incentive is something that motivates an individual to perform an action.

Online participation is used to describe the interaction between users and online communities on the web.

To Sell Is Human is the fifth non-fiction book by Daniel Pink.

The overjustification effect occurs when an expected external incentive such as money or prizes decreases a person's intrinsic motivation to perform a task.

Drive is the fourth non-fiction book by Daniel Pink.