Chapter 11 Flashcards

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Affect

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Experience or emotion

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Two components if effect

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Emotions and motivation

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Emotion

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A mental and physiological feeling state that directs our attention and guides our behaviour.

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Motivation

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A driving force that initiates and directs behaviour =

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Basic Emotions

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Anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise

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Cannon - Bard Theory of Emotion

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Experience of an emotion is accompanied by physiological arousal

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Example of Cannon Bard Theory of Emotion

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Becoming aware of danger, out heart rate also increases

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James Lange Theory of Emotion

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Experience of an emotion is the result of the arousal that we experienc

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Example of James Lange Theory of Emotion

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We feel sorry because we cry
Angry means we strike

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Two factor theory of emotion

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The arousal we experience is basically the same across emotions

emotion = arousal + cognition

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Excitation Transfer

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Phenomenon that occurs when people who are already experiencing arousal from on event tend to also experience unrelated emotions more strongly

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Facial Feedback Hypothesis

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Proposes that the movement of our facial muscles can trigger corresponding emotions

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Intrapersonal

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Role that emotions play within each of us individually

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Interpersonal

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Role that emotions that play between individuals within a group

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Social and Cultural

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Role that emotions play in the maintenance of social order within a society

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Intrapersonal Functions of Emotion

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  • Help us act quickly with minimal conscious awareness.
  • Prepare the body for immediate action.
  • Influence thoughts.
  • Motivate future behaviors. `
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Interpersonal Functions of Emotion

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Facilitate specific behaviors in perceivers.
Signal the nature of interpersonal relationships.
Provides incentives for desired social behaviour
Social Referencing

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Social Referencing

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Press whereby infants seek out information from others to clarify a situation and then use that information to act

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Optimism

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General tendency to expect positive outcomes

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Self efficacy

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The belief in our ability to carry out actions that produce desired outcomes

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Direct Effects of social support

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Having people we can trust and rely on helps us directly by allowing us to share favours when we need them

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Appreciation Effects of Social Efforts

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Having people around us makes us feel good about ourselves

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Drive State

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Affective experience that motivates organisms to fulfill goals that are bene facial to their survival and reproduction

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Homeostais

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Tendency of an organism to maintain this stability across all the different physiological systems in the body

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Set point

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An ideal level in which the state of the system being regulated is monitored and compared to

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Hypothalamus

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Responsible for synthesizing and secreting various hormones that affect hunger

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Satiation

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The decline of hunger and eventual termination of eating

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Preoptoic Area

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Sexual arousal and pleasure in males

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Goals

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Mental ideas of how we would like things to turn out

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Motivation

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Underlines our goals and it refers to the psychological driving force that enables action in the pursuit of that goal

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Motivation that comes from the benefits associated with the process of pursuing a goal

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Motivation that comes from the benefits associated with achieving a goal