chapter 10: motivations and emotions Flashcards

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what are the 4 components of emotions?

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  1. feelings
  2. biological reactions: psychological reactions when you’re happy mad sad
    ex: when you’re angry your heart rate increases
  3. motivations: every emotions motivates you to do something
    ex: when you’re hungry you eat
  4. bodily attractions: facial expressions, every emotion is linked to a facial expression
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paul ekmon

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  • became famous for looking at cross culture faces
  • known for his work in reading facial expressions
  • concluded that people all around the world made the same facial expressions, even blind people when they’re sad, happy, mad etc
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carol izard

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  • concluded her theory by looking at the emotions that appear in early infancy
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robert levenson

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he asked what the purpose of an emotion is , and looked at all revolutionary behind emotions

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what are the 6 emotions

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happy 
sad
angry 
surprised
disgust 
fear
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combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

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  • supermotivation
  • combining doing what you love AND getting a prize out of it
  • getting prizes for something takes the fun out of doing what you love
  • ends up only being about the prize
    ex: kids that colour
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intrinsic motivation

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  • doing something because you want to do it

- for the pleasure of the act itself

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extrinsic motivation

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  • doing something only if you get something in return
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what would give you intrinsic motivation?

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  1. competence
  2. autonomy
  3. relatedness
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competence

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  • doing something with the best of your ability, staying on top of your game
  • allows someone to feel like they can do it
  • need a good amount of challenge
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relatedness

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  • sense of belonging, wanting to be loved
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autonomy

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  • wanting a choice, having your voice heard

- not being told what to do or you will just do the opposite of what you’re told

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flow theory

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  • when the level of difficulty or challenge is a good balance
  • we get in the “zone”
  • completely focused
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kinsey scale

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  • sexuality is not binary, you are either gay or straight
  • there was no bisexual, gay or transexual
  • if you were it was called being slutty, or experimenting

there were myths where they would see if you’re gay or straight by your hair swirl or finger length

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4 stages of sexual motivation / sex drive stages

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  1. desire: you see something, you want it
  2. arousal: clothes are coming off, you are going to have sex
  3. orgasm: releasing fluids
  4. resolution: in men, they can’t go again they are so tired after the first orgasm
    with women, there are 60% who won’t reach the orgasm stage and if they do they might orgasm again and again
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oxytocin

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“hug hormone”

  • women have more of it, they get a high when kissing hugging or breastfeeding
  • it doesn’t always end in sex
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testosterone

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  • more of it in men
  • they want to have sex
    ex: if they see boobs and they want the boobs they’ll go after the boobs
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sexual selection

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  • males want to spread their genetics so they have multiple sexual partners
  • women take the time to invest in resources, make sure the guy is suitable because they’d rather have 1 amazing kid than 20 stupid ones
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set point theory

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  • fat cells release storage, can’t get rid of them, size only decreases
  • lots of people want to lose weight so they diet and when the weight is off they stop but it comes back because there body has a set point it is
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short term appetite

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blood sugar low= hungry
blood sugar high = full

people don’t only eat because there hungry, other factors influence food such as : place, time, variety and sizes

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long term energy balance hormones

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ghrelin: makes you starving

leptin : happens at the end of the meal, tells you you’re full

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homeostasis

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  • the idea of balance

- keeps everything the same

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emotional pathways

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are emotions cognitive or biological? they are both

cognitive: focuses more on mental aspects of emotions
STIMULUS-> SOCIALIZED RESPONSES-> CORTICAL BRAIN (conscious) -> COGNITIVE

biological: facial expressions, psychological reactions
STIMULUS-> INATE IMPULSES-> SUBCORTICAL BRAIN (unconscious) -> BIOLOGICAL

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emotional suppression

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  • negative emotions have functions
  • when you don’t show emotions you shut down communication
  • it helps to open up
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complex emotions

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  • require self regulation and self evaluation
  • they are self conscious emotions
  • don’t show till 2 years old
    ex: shame and guilt
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negative evaluations

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guilt: evaluation on behaviour
shame: evaluation on yourself not behaviour
embarrassment: a part of you going public when you didn’t want it to
ex: lettuce in teeth

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positive evaluations

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pride: satisfaction in your own work
triumph: VICTORYYYYYY- hands fly in the air

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other evaluative emotions

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envy: you want what they have
jealousy: you don’t want them to have it
hate: you don’t think they deserve anything
love: you want the best for them
compassion: you understand their pain
empathy: you put yourself in their shoes
sympathy: you feel sorry for them

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submissive smile

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2 types of smiles 
- fake smile 
when you're polite or embarrassed 
- happy smile 
you're genuinely happy
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surprised

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least researched
comes for 5 seconds and either goes to happy or sad
happy surprise is surprise party
bad surprise is seeing a dead body

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fear

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one of the primary emotions

  • fear saves our ass
  • we feel scared when we see a threat or danger
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anger

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  • you want to gain power and control

- you want to overcome an obstacle

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disgust

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  • repulsion
  • gagging
    seeing a rotten sandwich under your bed
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sadness

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stronger emotion

  • you feel sad when we lose something we love or we fail
  • we cry to show we need help
  • we feel weak, no energy
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joy

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  • we feel happy when we get what we want
    4 components of joy
    1. wonder- calm
    2. amusement- feeling entertained
    3. contentment- you’re just happy, chilling
    4. schadenfreude: you feel happy when something bad happens to someone else