chapter 10: motivations and emotions Flashcards
1
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what are the 4 components of emotions?
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- feelings
- biological reactions: psychological reactions when you’re happy mad sad
ex: when you’re angry your heart rate increases - motivations: every emotions motivates you to do something
ex: when you’re hungry you eat - bodily attractions: facial expressions, every emotion is linked to a facial expression
2
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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
3
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carol izard
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- concluded her theory by looking at the emotions that appear in early infancy
4
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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
5
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what are the 6 emotions
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happy sad angry surprised disgust fear
6
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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
7
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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
8
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extrinsic motivation
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- doing something only if you get something in return
9
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what would give you intrinsic motivation?
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- competence
- autonomy
- relatedness
10
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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
11
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relatedness
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- sense of belonging, wanting to be loved
12
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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
13
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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
14
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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
15
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4 stages of sexual motivation / sex drive stages
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- desire: you see something, you want it
- arousal: clothes are coming off, you are going to have sex
- orgasm: releasing fluids
- 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