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Chapter 8: Emotion And Motivation Flashcards

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Emotion

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Short-term state that includes special feelings and physical actions that prepares people for action

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Feelings

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  • Hard to describe
  • Studied carefully by measuring how close people say one feeling is to another
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Appraisals

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Our emotions come from how we judge what happened, which makes different people behave in different ways.

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Action tendencies

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Ready to do a certain set of actions that are related to emotions

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James-Lange theory

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Stimuli trigger activity in the ANS which in return produces an emotional experience in the brain

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Cannon-Bard theory

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Thought emotions occurred at the same time as, but independently of, physiological activity

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Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer’s two-factor theory

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Stimuli triggers a general state of physiological arousal, which then is interpreted as a specific emotion

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Amygdala

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Plays an important role in emotion; threat detector

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The Fast Pathway

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Thalamus —> Amygdala
(Stimulus) (Experience of fear)

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The Slow Pathway

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Thalamus —> Cortex —> Amygdala
(Stimulus) (Experience of fear)

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Emotional Expression

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Observable sign of an emotional state (facial expressions, voice)

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Universality hypothesis

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All emotional expressions mean the same thing to all people in all places at all times

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Facial feedback hypothesis

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Emotional expressions can make you feel the emotional experience they represent

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Deceptive expression

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We can control (to some extent) our expression of emotion

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Lying

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Telling lies affect verbal and nonverbal behaviour

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Display rule

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rules for how people should show how they feel in their own communities

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Motivation

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Internal causes of purposeful behaviour

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Drives

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Internal state generated by physiological needs

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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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Drive-reduction theory

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Suggests that organisms are motivated to reduce their drives or needs

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Hedonic principle

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all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

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Primary motivation

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Is to feel good rather than bad

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Emotional regulation

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using different mental and physical strategies to change how someone feels

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Reappraisal

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Changing the way you think/judge about something

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Hunger

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Humans are motivated to eat to convert food to energy

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Orexigenic

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Switches on the experience of hunger

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Anorexigenic

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Switches off the experience of hunger

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Binge-Eating Disorder

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Recurrent and uncontrolled episodes of eating large number of calories in a short time

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Bulimia Nervosa

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Binge eating followed by excessive exercising

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Anorexia Nervosa

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Intense fear of being fat, resulting in severe restriction of food intake

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Obesity causes

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BMI of 30+
- caused by genes, environmental toxins, lack of exercise and overeating

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Metabolism

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Rate at which energy is used by the body (reduces fat)

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Sexual desire

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Desire for sex is necessary for survival of DNA

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Human sexual response cycle

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Stages of physiological arousal durning sexual activity

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Biological motivations

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Food, sex, oxygen and sleep that are shared with animals

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Intrinsic motivation

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Motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding (eating fries)

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Extrinsic motivation

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Motivation to take actions that are not themselves rewarding but lead to a reward (exams, homework)

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The overjustification effect

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people who are rewarded for a behaviour become less motivated to repeat it

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Conscious motivation

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Motivation in which one is aware of

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Unconscious motivation

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Motivation in which one is not aware of

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Achievement motivation

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Motivation to experience positive outcomes

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Avoidance motivation

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Motivation to not experience negative outcomes

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Loss aversion

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Tendency to care more about avoiding losses than about achieving equal size gains

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Terror management theory

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A theory about how people respond to knowledge of their own death

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