Motivation and Emotion Flashcards
Feelings that influence behavior. These have a physiological and a cognitive component in reaction to an event.
Emotions
3 Functions of Emotion
- Prepare for Action
- Shaping Behavior
- Social Interaction
3 Theories of Emotions
- James-Lunge Theory
- Cannon-Bard Theory
- Schacter-Singer Theory
A theory that explains that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occurring as a result of an external situation.
James-Lunge Theory
The reaction of the body.
Instinctual Reaction
The emotion that the mind feels.
Emotional Reaction
It explains that both physiological and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus.
Cannon-Bard Theory
It explains that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation based on environmental cues.
Schacter-Singer Theory
Factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms.
Motivation
4 Approaches of Motivation
- Instinctual
- Drive-Reduction
- Arousal
- Incentive + Cognitive
It means that people and animals are born preprogrammed with sets of behaviors essential to their survival.
Instincts/Instinctual
It explains that a lack of some basic biological need produces a drive to push an organism to satisfy that need.
Drive-Reduction
It explains that people try to maintain a steady level of stimulation and activity.
Arousal
It explains that motivation is the outcomes of people’s thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and goals.
Incentive + Cognitive
2 types of Motivation
- Extrinsic Motivation
- Intrinsic Motivation
It seeks external rewards not necessarily connected to the task.
Extrinsic Motivation
A type of motivation that is for the enjoyment and self-chosen reasons of the task to be done.
Intrinsic Motivation
An early psychologist that suggested that there are 18 instincts.
William McDougall
The exact amount of distinct instincts discovered by other theorists and one sociologist.
5,759
The explanation that suggests people and animals are born programmed with sets of behaviors essential to their survival.
Instinct Approaches to Motivation
Theories suggesting that a lack of some basic biological need produces a drive to push an organism to satisfy that need.
Drive-reduction Approaches to Motivation
Basic drives such as hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex, are related to biological needs of the body or of the species as a whole.
Primary Drives
These are prior experience and learning bring about needs.
Secondary Drives
The body’s tendency to maintain a steady internal state.
Homeostasis