Emotion in motivation

Question 1

Function of emotion in motivation

Answer 1

• Provide information about the world
• Capgras Syndrome
• Affective decision making
• Objective toward which people strive
• Hedonic principle - the notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

Question 2

Models of Motivation: Evolutionary

Answer 2

Question 3

Models of Motivation: Drive Reduction

Answer 3

Question 4

Models of motivation: Optimal Arousal

Answer 4

• Yerkes & Dodson Law
• Principle that moderate levels of arousal lead to
  optimal performance
• Sensory deprivation studies
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Csíkszentmihályi, 1990)
• Optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best

Question 5

Models of Motivation: Hierarchical Needs

Answer 5

• Maslow-Humanistic Approach to Personality
• Needs range from most basic physiological necessities to highest psychological needs for growth and fulfillment
• More likely to experience a need when the needs below it are met

Question 6

Kinds of Motivation

Answer 6

Intrinsic motivation:
* Taking actions that are themselves rewarding.
* Tend to be more satisfying

• Extrinsic motivation:
• Taking actions that are not themselves rewarding but that lead to a reward
• May undermine intrinsic rewards
• Delayed gratification:
• Engaging in behaviors that will bring greater rewards in future
• Predictive of future success
• Threats or punishments can make the prohibited behavior more appealing.
• Approach motivation:
• A motivation to experience positive
  outcomes
• Promotion focus
• Avoidance motivation:
• A motivation not to experience negative
  outcomes
• Prevention focus
• Tends to be more powerful
• BIS/BAS Scale
• High Approach: happier when rewarded
• High Avoidance: more anxious when
  threatened

Question 7

Extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation

Answer 7