Motivation and Emotion Flashcards
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Instinct Theory
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- motivation
- idea that certain behaviour as motivated out of instinct, for survival purpose
2
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Psychodynamic theory
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= arise from unconsciousness
- Freud
3
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Drive Theory
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- biological explanation
= homeostasis, maintain bodily balance
4
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Arousal Theory
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- engagement and disengagement are determined by whether optimal level of arousal is met
5
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self-determined theory
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- behaviours are motivated by:
1. psychological factors
(competence=confidence, relatedness=belonging + autonomy=control ) +
2. intrinsic +
3. extrinsic–from social factors
6
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McClelland’s Work Theory
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- work is promoted by achievement + affiliation + power
7
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
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- motivation increases when basic needs are met
- self-actualisation
- esteem
- belongingness
- safety
- physiological needs
8
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Evolutionary Theory
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- there are 3 types of motivation, and their priority changes over time, over development
- functional (basics)
- proximal (short-term)
3, developmental (long-term)
9
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Needs of emotion
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- Evolutionary = aid survival, e.g., disgust
- Cognitive = making meaning and attachment to other things
- Biological = Amygdala: processor of emotional information
10
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Common-sense View
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Stimulus –> emotion –> physio arousal
11
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James-Lange View
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Stimulus –> physio arousal –> emotion
12
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Cannon-bard view
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stimulus –>
- physio
- emotion
13
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Schachter-Singer Two-factors Theory
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stimulus –>
- physio arousal
- cognitive arousal –> emotion
14
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Misattribution of arousal
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- distortion in attributing physio arounsal to untrue cognitive arousal
e. g., increase heartbeat => fear ? love?
15
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Suspicious Bridge Study (1974)
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- demo of Misattribution of Arousal
