Motivation, emotion, stress Flashcards
Yerkes-Dodson law
Performance is optimal at a medium level of arousal
Drive reduction theory
Motivation arises from the desire to eliminate drives, which create uncomfortable internal states
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Priorities divided into: physiological needs, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization
Self-determination theory
emphasizes role of three universal needs, autonomy, competence, relatedness
Seven universal emotions
happiness, sadness, contempt, surprise, fear, disgust, anger
James-Lange theory
Nervous system arousal leads to a cognitive response in which the emotion is labeled
Cannon-Bard theory
Simultaneous arousal of the nervous system and cognitive response lead to action
Schachter-Singer theory
Nervous system arousal and interpretation of context lead to a cognitive response
Limbic system
Primary nervous system component involved in experiencing emotion
Amygdala
Attention and fear, helps interpret
Microstressor
Daily hassles and minor annoyances that can be stressful
Chronic stressor
Stimulus that causes great amounts of stress over long peiods of time and is always destructive
Psychological stressor
Stimulus that places stress primarily on the mind, not body
Ambient stressor
Global challenges that affect individuals on a subconscious level, are always present in one’s environment
Mesolimbic pathway
One of the main reward circuitries, begins at ventral tegmental area and ends at nucleus accumbens
(nucleus accumbens experiences an increase in dopaine in response to ecstasy)
