Motivation And Emotion Flashcards
What are the three types of emotion?
Cognitive, physiological, and behavioral
What is cognitive emotion?
Subjective conscious experience
What is physiological emotion?
Bodily arousal
Behavioral emotion
Characteristic over expression
What is instinct theory?
Motivated by our inborn automated behaviors and only explain some behavior
What is a drive?
Internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension
What is the drive-reduction theory?
Behavior motivated by biological needs, wants to maintain homeostasis and when we are not we have a need that creates a drive
What is homeostasis
State of physiological equilibrium or stability
What is the incentive theory?
Act of wanting something, behavior is pulled by a desire instead of pushed by a need
What is Intristic motivation?
Re-wards we get internally, enjoyment or satisfaction
What is extrinsic motivation?
Rewards we get from accomplishments outside, grades and more money, great for short-term
What is the primary drive?
Physical Drive, and unlearned Drive based on psychological state(hunger)
What is secondary drive
Learn to drive (ambition)
What is achievement motive?
Meeting personal goals
What is theory x?
Will work if rewarded with benefits/threatened by punishment, extrinsic
What is Theory Y?
Internally motivated to do good work, internal, higher up in Maslow hierarchy
What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?
There is an optimal level or arousal for best performance on any task
What is the Kinsey study?
Heterosexual verse homosexual
Sexual behavior in the human make in the human female, the scale of sexuality, 0 to 6
0 being Heterosexual
6 being homosexual
Interviews 18000 people
What is the Masters and Johnson study?
382 females and 312 males
Watched them have sex
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
Physiological change and cognitive awareness must occur simultaneously
Thalamus made it happen
Bard and the brain
What is the James-Lange theory?
Full emotion because of biological changes caused by stress
Body changes and our mind recognizes the feeling
What is the cognitive theory?
“Cognitive appraisal”
Decide if situation is positive, negative or neutral
Positive/negative appraisal triggers both physiological arousal and feeling of an emotion
What is the common sense theory?
Motion stimulus produces the feeling of an emotion in this feeling produces psychological changes and behavior
What are two factor theory of emotion
Emotions happen at the same time, people who are already psychological aroused experience more intense emotions than unaroused people
Biological and cognition interact with each other to increase experience
What is the hierarchy of needs?
Motivated by unequal me, driven to satisfy lower needs first
What is the arousal theory?
Motivated to see is an optimum, Yerkes – Dodson llaw
What is the facial feedback hypothesis?
Muscles send messages to the brain that both identify the motion you’re feeling and intensify it
What is approach versus approach
Conflict – choice between two attractive goals, least successful
Avoidance verse avoidance
Choice between two unattractive goals
Approach versus avoidance
Single pole that has both attractive and unattractive aspects
Multiple approach versus avoidance?
Multiple options
Seyle’s General adaptation syndrome?
Describes our response to A stressful event
What are the three stages of Seyle’s General adaptation syndrome?
Alarm, resistance, and exhaustion
What is a motive?
Goal directed desire
