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Motivation and Emotion Flashcards

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Autonomy

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A need to achieve greater freedom and regulation by the self, rather than by external forces

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Relatedness

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A need to form meaningful bonds with others

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Metabolism

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The body’s rate of energy (or caloric) utilization

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Satiety

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State in which we no longer feel hungry

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Set point

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A biologically determined standard around which body weight (or, rather, fat mass) is regulated. Fixed level that maintains homeostasis

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Competence

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A need to master new challenges and perfect skills

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Instinct

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An inherited characteristic, common to all members of a species, that automatically produces a particular response when the organism is exposed to a particular stimulus

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Homeostasis

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State of internal physiological equilibrium that the body strives to maintain

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Drive

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State of internal tension motivating an organism to behave in ways that reduce this tension
e.g. hunger, thirst

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Behavioural activation system (BAS)

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Roused into action by signals of potential reward and positive need gratification
Causes person to move toward positive goals in anticipation of pleasure

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Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS)

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Responds to stimuli that signal potential pain, non-reinforcement, and punishment
Produces fear and escape / avoidant behaviours

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Expectancy x Value Theory

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States that behaviour is determined by:
Strength of expectation that behaviour will lead to a goal
Incentive value that person places on goal

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Extrinsic Motivation

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Performing an activity to obtain external reward or avoid punishment

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Intrinsic Motivation

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Comes from within a person

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Leptin

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Hormone secreted by fat cells, decreases appetite and increases energy expenditure
- Increases potency of other satiety signals

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Social Motivation Evolutionary Theory

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Humans have evolved to become highly social creatures

Affiliation has provided many adaptive advantages

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Need for achievement

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Positive desire to accomplish tasks and compete successfully with standards of excellence (motive for success and fear of failure)

Motivated to achieve, want to do really well (others just want to pass and are not really motivated)

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High need achievers

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High in achievement and low in fear of failure

  • Perceive themselves as responsible for outcomes
  • Prefer challenging tasks that involve moderate risk of not succeeding
  • Desire performance feedback
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Achievement Goal Theory

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Focuses on the manner in which success is defined both by the individual and within the achievement situation itself

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Achievement goal Orientation: Mastery orientation

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Focus on personal improvement, giving maximum effort and perfecting new skills

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Achievement goal Orientation: Mastery-approach goals

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Focus on desire to master a task and learn new knowledge or skills

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Achievement goal Orientation: Ego-approach goals

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Reflect a competitive orientation that focuses on being judged favourably relative to other people

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Achievement goal orientations: Mastery-avoidance goals

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A fear not performing up to one’s own standard

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Achievement Orientation Goals: Ego-avoidance goals

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enter on avoiding being outperformed by others

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Motivational Climate
Influenced by parents, teachers, coaches and supervisors
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Ego- involving climate
People are compared to each other, urged to compete to be the best and get special attention
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Mastery-involving climate
Effort, enjoyment of the activity and personal improvement emphasized and rewarded
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Polygraph test
Measures physiological responses e.g. respiration, heart rate and skin conductance (innocent people appear guilty when autonomic activity increases, guilty people can beat the polygraph by controlling autonomic processes).
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“High Road” neural pathway to the cortex
Slower, conscious processing
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"Low road” to the amygdala
Very quick and unconscious processing (e.g. seeing a snake and immediate response)
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Emotion
Feeling (or affect) states that involve a pattern of cognitive, physiological and behavioural reactions to events
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Expressive behaviours
The person’s observable emotional displays
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Empathy
Others’ emotional displays can evoke similar responses in us
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Fundamental emotional patterns
Innate emotional reactions that are believed to be wired into the nervous system
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Cultural display rules
Dictate when and how particular emotions are to be expressed
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Instrumental behaviours
Behaviours directed at achieving some emotion-relevant goal
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James-Lange Theory
Our bodily reactions determine the subjective emotion we experience (physiological events play a causal role in feeling of emotions) Stimulus --> Physiological responses (e.g. increased heart rate) & behavioural responses (e.g. run away) the physiological cause feelings of certain emotions - The autonomic arousal CAUSES how you feel
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Cannon-Bard Theory
The subjective experience of emotion and physiological arousal do not cause one another but instead are independent responses to an emotion-arousing situation. Info comes in, first goes to your thalamus and processes, then decides and sends to organs and muscles and then also goes to the cortex at the same time . Message to Cortex produces experience of emotion Thalamus allows you to feel this way physiologically and emotionally
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when you are thirsty, drink a glass of water and then no longer feel thirsty, in terms of drive reduction theory
homeostasis has been achieved
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if you have been hiking up the mountain for several days with no food. your primary focus is to find food. in terms of ____, you will search for food until she finds something to eat.
drive theory of emotion
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you study every day. your anticipation that studying will lead to a good grade can be best described as...
an incentive
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According to Dr X, Jason is an enthusiastic rugby player because of unconscious aggressive impulses. Dr X's explanation is most aligned with...
the psychodynamic perspective
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according to self-determination theory, what are the three fundamental needs?
Competence, Autonomy, Relatedness
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Some researchers suggest that our body attempts to maintain a certain body weight: if we eat too little our metabolism will slow down, and if we eat too much our metabolism will speed up. This is best explained by
set point theory
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The Cannon-Bard Theory proposes that
subjective experience of emotion and physiological arousal are independent responses to an emotion arousing situation.
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Which part of the brain plays a major role in sexual motivation?
Hippocampus
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_____________ comparison allows us to determine if our responses are ‘normal’ and judge our level of physical and cognitive abilities.
social
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An individual who typically wants to outperform others with as little effort as possible is best described as ____________ oriented.
ego
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Eliciting stimuli
Stimuli that trigger cognitive appraisal & emotional responses
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Cognitive Appraisals
The interpretations & meanings that we attach to sensory stimuli
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Approach-Approach Conflict
When we face two attractive alternatives and selecting one means losing the other
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Avoidance-Avoidance conflict
When we must choose between two undesirable alternatives
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Approach-avoidance conflict
Being attracted to and repelled by the same goal
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Self-determination theory
Focuses on 3 Fundamental psychological needs: Autonomy, relatedness and competence
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Self-Actualization
The need to fulfil our potential
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Incentives
Environmental stimuli that pull an organism towards a goal
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drive-reduction theory
- a physiological need, or drive simply compels us to reduce that need. (hearing stomach growl and looking for food). - focus on maintaining homeostasis
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optimal arousal
-suggests that rather than just reducing a drive, like hunger, we're motivated to maintain a balance between stimulation and relaxation
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3 strongest motivaters
- sex - hunger - need to belong

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