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Motivation And Emotion Flashcards

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Motivation (dynamics of behavior)

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Initiates, sustains, directs, and terminates behavior

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A model of motivation

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Need (internal deficiency)
Drive (hunger, thirst, success)
Responses (action, identifiable behavior)
Goal (target)

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Types of motives

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Biological
Stimulus
Learned

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Biological motives

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Based on biological needs that must be met for survival

Air, food, sex

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Stimulus motives

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Express our needs for stimulation and information

Curiosity, playing an instrument

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Learned motives

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Based on learned needs, drives, and goals

Money, power

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Biological motives (biomot) are essential because they maintain

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Homeostasis

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Circadian rhythms

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Biological clocks
Jet lag and shift work
Preadaptation

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Maslow Hierarchy of Needs: Bottom to Top with percentages

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Physiological needs 85%
Safety and security 70%
Love and belonging 50%
Esteem and self esteem 40%
Self actualization 10%
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Basic needs

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Esteem and self esteem
Love and belonging
Safety and security
Physiological needs

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Growth needs

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Self actualization as expressed through meta-needs:
Wholeness, perfection, completion, justice, richness, simplicity, aliveness, beauty, goodness, uniqueness, playfulness, truth, autonomy, meaningfulness

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Motivation coming from within, not external rewards

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Intrinsic motivation

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Based on obvious external rewards, obligations, or similar factors

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Extrinsic motivation

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Basic universal emotions (8)

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Anticipation, joy, trust (acceptance), fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger

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Anticipation (less and more intense)

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Interest

Vigilance

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Joy (less and more intense)

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Serenity

Ecstasy

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Trust (less and more intense)

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Acceptance

Admiration

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Fear (less and more intense)

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Apprehension

Terror

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Surprise (less and more intense)

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Distraction

Amazement

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Sadness (less and more intense)

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Pensiveness

Grief

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Disgust (less and more intense)

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Boredom

Loathing

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Anger (less and more intense)

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Annoyance

Rage

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Activates part of brain involved in learning

Released by stomach lining

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Ghrelin

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Feeding system

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Lateral hypothalamus

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Ventromedial hypothalamus

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Satiety system

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External eating cues

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If internal cues ONLY pushed us to eat, fewer people would overeat
Visible food

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Active dislike for a particular food

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Taste aversion

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Active self-starvation or sustained loss of appetite that seeks to have psychological origins

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Anorexia nervosa (1% of adults)

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Excessive eating (bingeing) usually followed by self-induced vomiting and/or taking laxatives

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Bulimia nervosa (3% of adults)

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Activation of the body and nervous system

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Arousal

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The relationship between arousal and performance

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Inverted U function

32
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If a task is simple, it is best for arousal to be high

If a task is complex, lower levels of arousal provide the best performance

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Geeked-Dodson Law

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Acquired by growing up in a particular society or culture (status, money, power, belonging)

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Social motives

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Desire to meet or exceed some internal standard of excellence

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Need for achievement (nAch)

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Desire to have impact or control over others

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Need for power

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Device that records changes in heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, and galvanic skin response (GSR)
Can’t tell difference between lying, fear, anxiety, and excitement

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Polygraph

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A series of multiple choice questions are asked; one answer is correct (gun type)

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Guilty knowledge test

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Negative emotions (what hemisphere of the brain)

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Right hemisphere

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Positive emotions (what hemisphere)

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Left hemisphere

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Which hemisphere activation:
Positive feelings, approach, energy enrichment, happiness, love, attachment, safety, calf, curiosity, explore, nourishment, slow heart rate, relaxation, restore

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Left brain activation

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Which hemisphere activation:
Negative feelings, withdrawal, energy expenditure, sadness, anger, loneliness, danger, excitement, caution, retreat, vigilance, rapid heart rate, anxiety, run

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Right brain activation

42
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Study of communication through body movement, posture, gestures, and facial expressions

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Kinesics

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Three theories of emotion

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James-Lange theory
Cannon-Bard Theory
Schachter’s cognitive theory

44
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Emotional feelings follow bodily arousal and come from awareness of such arousal

Emotional stimulus -> behavior -> emotional feelings

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James-Lange theory

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James-Lange Theory example

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Swerving a car, touching a hot pan

46
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The thalamus (in brain) causes emotional feelings and bodily arousal to occur simultaneously

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Cannon-Bard theory

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Cannon-Bard Theory example

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Running from a bear

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Emotions occur when physical arousal is labeled or interpreted on the basis of experience and situational cues

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Schachter’s cognitive theory

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Schachter’s cognitive theory example

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Stanzione scaring a student

50
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Mental process of assigning causes to events; attributing arousal to a certain source

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Attribution

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