Chapter 10: Emotion and Motivation Flashcards

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Emotion

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an immediate, specific negative or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts. typically have some kind of triggering event

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Another Name For Emotion?

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Affect

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Emotion Has 3 Components

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1) physiological process
2) behavioral response
3) a feeling

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A Feeling

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the subjective experience of the emotion

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Moods

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diffuse, long-lasting emotional states that do not have an identifiable trigger or a specific behavioral and physiological response

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Primary Emotions

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innate evolutionarily adaptive, and universal across cultures. ex. sadness, anger

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Secondary Emotions

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blends of primary emotions, feelings about emotions, or emotions that relate to culturally specific values or concepts. ex. shame, pride

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Culturally Specific Emotion

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the feeling of loss of face, sense of respect, honor, and social regard

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Circumplex Model

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emotions are plotted along two continuums: valence, or how negative or positive they are, and arousal. or how activating they are

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Arousal

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generic term used to describe physiological activation or increased autonomic responses

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Limbic System

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many subcortical brain regions are involved in emotion

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Hippocampus

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memory

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Hypothalamus

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Motivation

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Most Important Limbic System Structures For Understanding Emotion? (2)

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Insula and the Amygdala

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Important for generating emotions

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Insula

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receives and integrates somatosensory signals from the entire body

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The Amygdala

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-processes the emotional significance of stimuli, and it generates immediate emotional and behavioral reactions
-most important brain structure for emotional learning, as in the development of classically conditioned fear responses

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“Quick and Dirty” System

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processes sensory information nearly instantaneously, sensory information travels quickly through the thalamus directly to the amygdala for priority processing

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Slow Path

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sensory material travels from the thalamus to the cortex, where the information is scrutinized in greater depth before it is passed along to the amygdala

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Emotional Events

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likely to increase activity in the amygdala and that increased activity is likely to improve long-term memory for the event

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Which Brain Structure Is Involved In The Perception Of Social Stimuli?

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The Amygdala

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James-Lange Theory

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we perceive specific patterns of bodily responses, and as a result of that perception we feel emotion (Facial Feedback Hypothesis)

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Cannon-Bard Theory

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that information about emotional stimuli is sent to the mind and body separately

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Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory

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When people experience arousal, they initiate a search for its source

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What Is It Called When People Misidentify The Source Of Their Arousal?

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Misattribution Of Arousal

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Emotion Concerns…?

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how we feel

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Motivation Concerns…?

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the forces that guide behavior

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4 Essential Qualities of Motivational States

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1) Energizing
2) Directive
3) Persist
4) Strength

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Motivation

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A process that energizes, guides, and maintains behavior toward a goal

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Maslow’s Need Hierarchy

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Self Actualization
Esteem
Love/Belonging
Safety
Physiological

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Drive

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a psychological state that, creating arousal, motivates an organism to satisfy a need. A particular drive encourages behaviors that will satisfy a particular need

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

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psychological principle dictates that performance on challenging tasks increases with arousal only up to a moderate point

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Incentives

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external objects or external goals, rather than internal drives, that motivate behaviors

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Extrinsic Motivation

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directed toward an external goal, typically a reward. (quantity)

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Intrinsic Motivation

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value or pleasure associated with an activity, rather than toward any external goal. (quality)

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Hedonism

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refers to humans’ desire for pleasantness and avoidance of unpleasantness

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Left Hemispheric Activity

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approach motives

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Right Hemispheric Activity

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avoidance motives

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Two Theoretical Approaches To Motivation

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Evolutionary Perspective & Humanistic Perspective

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Four Observations That Drive The Theory Of Evolution:

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1) Organisms vary in endless ways
2) Some of these characteristics are heritable
3) Availability of resources can never catch up with the rate of reproduction
4) A heritable trait will become prevalent if this trait enhances the survival of an organism and its offspring

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Fitness refers to the…

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reproductive success

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Bateman’s Principle

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-Females are choosier when picking a mate
-Nearly all females mate and have offspring, relatively few males mate successfully

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Harem

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refers to the place in which an elite man houses his wives, pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic servants, enslaved women, and other unmarried female relatives

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Evolutionary Psychology Studies…

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traits that have been shown to be universal in humans

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SMART Goal

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Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound

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Hot Cognition

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Thoughts, behaviors, and decisions are affected by emotions or immediate physiological needs

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Cold Cognition

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-Think critically and make decisions based on logic and evidence
-Delay gratification
-Give yourself a reason why you shouldn’t do something

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People With Grit Have:

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-Deep passion for their goals
-Willingness to keep working toward their goals
-Perseverance

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Fear and Anger are…

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bio-chemically identical

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Charles Darwin believed that:

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-Emotional expressions are universal
-Emotional responses are serving some adaptive functions
-Emotions are inherited

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7 Primary Emotions

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fear, disgust, happiness, surprise, anger, sadness, contempt