Chapter 8 Emotion and Motivation Flashcards

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Emotion

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Positive or Negative experience associated with a particular pattern of a living thing

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James-Lange Theory of Emotion

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A stimulus triggers activity in the body, which turns an emotional experience in the mind

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Two Dimensions of Arousal and Valence

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How angry= high arousal and negative valence

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Amygdala

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Plays a role in emotion and a threat detector
Found in the limbic system
Fast Reaction

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5
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Facial Expressions are…

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Universal!

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Display Rule

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Norm for the appropriate expressin of emotion

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Exaggerating the expression of one’s emotion is called…

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Intensification

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Deintensification

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Muting the expression of one’s emotion such as a loser of a competition tries to look a bit dissapointed rather than fully devastated

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9
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Masking

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Expressing one emotion while hiding the other

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Neutralizing

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Showing no expression of the emotion one is feeling

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Drives

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An urgent basic need pressing for satisfaction (needing to eat because you are starving)

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Homeostasis

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Tendency for a system to take action to keep itself in a particular state

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13
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Drive-Reduction Theory

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A theory suggesting that organisms are motivated to reduce their drives
ex: the drive to drink water to reduce the body’s imbalance with water)

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14
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Abraham Maslow-(1908-1970)

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Stated that people are motivated to fulfill a hierarchy of needs
Some needs are more pressing than others (need to eat)
Maslow built a hierarchy of needs

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15
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Hierarchy of needs in order

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1) need for self actualization
2) esteem needs
3) belongingness and love needs
4) safety and security needs
5) physiological needs

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Orexigenic

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Switches on the experience of hunger

17
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Hunger Hormone

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Ghrelin in stomach

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Lateral Hypothalamus

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Feeding center that turns on feeding behaviour

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Anorexigenic

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Switches off the experience of hunger

20
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Motivation

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Physiological cause of an action

21
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Eating Disorder (BED)

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Characterized by recurrent and uncontrolled episodes of eating a large number of calories in short time

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Eating disorder characterized by binge eating, followed by throwing up

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Eating disorder characterized by intense fear of being fat, resulting in severe restriction of food intake

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Obesity (BMI of over 30>)

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Causes include eating when we are not hungry, and biochemical abnormalities

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Dieting does what to metabolism?
Decreases metabolism
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Metabolism
The rate at which energy is used by the body
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Obesity Causes
Highly heritable, genetic compound, simply eating too much when we are nervous or anxious
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The Hormone DHEA is....
involved in the intial onset of sexual desire
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Human Sexual Response cycle
Stages of physiological arousal during sexual activity, this has 4 phases
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Phases of Human Sexual Response Cycle
1) excitement phase 2) plateau phase 3) orgasm phase 4) resolution phase
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Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding (listening to music)
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Extrinsic Motivation
Motivation to take actions that lead to reward (we work hard for money)
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Motivations of which people are aware
Concious Motivations
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Unconcious Motivations
Motivations of which people are not aware
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Need for achievement
Motivation to solve worthwhile problems
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Approach Motivation
The motivation to experience a positive outcome
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Avoidance Motivation
The motivation not to experience a negative outcome
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Loss Adversion
The tendency to care more about avoiding losses than about achieving equal size goals
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Terror Management Theory
Theory that people cope with their existential terror by developing a cultural worldview