MOTIVATION TEXTBOOK Flashcards

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10 unifying themes of motivation

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  • complex adaptive system
  • direction attention, intervening variables, vary over time (stream of behaviour), various types, can be subconscious, reveals what people want, what is easy is rarely effective, good theory, needs supportive environment
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What are the supportive enironments needed for motivation to flourish (4)

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1) education
2) work
3) sports
4) therapy

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Platos view of motivation (3)

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  • comes from the arranged soul
    1) appetitive aspect (id)
    2) competitive (ego)
    3) calculating aspect (superego)
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Artistole view of motivation (3)

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  • same view as plato but used different terminology
    1) nutrititive (id)
    2) sensitive (ego)
    3) Rational (superego)
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Descartes

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  • evnetually reduced to dualism

- mind is passive

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3 grand theories

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1) will
2) instinct
3) drive

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4 stages of Freud’s Drive Theory

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1) drive source
2) impetus
3) objects
4) aim

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Hull’s drive theory

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  • used scientific method to build theory
  • all needs add up to meet total needs
  • E= HxD (habit and drive = environment)
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Revised Hul’’s drive theory

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  • E= HxDxK = includes incentive and internal drive
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3 assumptions of drive theory (that were criticized)

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1) from bodily needs - can emerge without bodily needs
2) to energize behaviour - no because you can eat for taste but not for behaviour
3) drive reduction = learning - doing something just to learn occurs

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What is optimal level of arousal

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  • too little arousal (boredom) and too much arousal (stress) is aversive
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Goal of mini theories (4)

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1) to study motivational phenomenon
2) to study particular people
3) particular circumstances
4) theoretical questions

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3 reasons of decline to drive theory

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1) active humans
2) cognitive revolution
3) social relevant questions

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Darwin

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  • argued emotional reactions were innate
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William James

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  • thoughts emotions were non-specific (bodily reaction = emotions)
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Stanley Schatecner

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  • phsiological reaction was general arousal state and person needs environmental cues to interpret emotional reaction (cognitive appraisal = emotion)
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Dual process model

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  • bidirectional forces with basic emotions and cognitive control over these motivation and emotion
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Dopamine

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  • reward and pleasure
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Serotonin

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  • mood and emotion
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Norepinephrine

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  • communicate with arousal and alertness
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Endorphins

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  • inhibition of pain, anxiety, fear etc.
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How does Hypothlamus control (1) endorcrine system and (2) automatic nervous system

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1) through controlling the pituitary gland and secreting hormoes
2) by controllin the PNS and ANS

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Right hemisphere

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  • produce negative emotion; sympathetic NS; behavioural inhibition system (BIS)
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Left hemisphere

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  • produce positive emotion; parasympathetic NS; beahvioural actiavtion system (BAS)
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Allostatic load

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  • cumulative toll of stress
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Psychological need

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  • deficits in biology
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Psychological drive

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  • conscious manifestation
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homeostatsis

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  • to maintain equillibrum
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Negative feedback

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  • once underlying need is satifised the body needs a signal to stop
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Multiple inputs/outputs

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drive arise from different inputs and different goal directed behaviours

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Intraorganismic mechanisms

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  • environemntal influences that play a part in activating psychology drive
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Homestatic mechanism

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  • “wisdom of body” that uses intraogranism mechanism and negative feedback to regulate system
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Double depletion model

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  • both intra and extracellular fluid is depelted
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Osmometric thirst

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  • intracellula fluid needs replensihitment
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Volumetric thirst

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  • extracellular fluid needs replenishment (reduction of plasma)
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What is primary cause of thirst?

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  • osmoetric thirst; fix my replinsihign intracellular fluid
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Osmosis

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  • water passes extracellular fluid to intracellular to hydrate osmometric thirst
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What is the role of hypothamalus in thirst

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  • it monitors intracellular shrinkage and when it notices that there is too much salt and less water it releases andi-diretuic homrone into the blood that tells the kidney to conserve water
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Glycostatic hypothesis

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  • short term appetite homeostatic model that monistors blood-sugar level and when it drops the cells send signal to lateral hypothlamaus to tell us to eat
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What is resonsible for terminating eating?

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  • ventromedial hypothalamus (VHM)
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Lipostatic hypothesis

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  • long-term metabolic homestatic model that fat levels drop which signal adipose tissues to secrete ghrelin which signals to lateral hypothalamus that it is hungry
  • leptin from fat cells will tell ventromedial hypothalamus (VHM) that it is full
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set point theory

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  • biologically determined weight so when you diet your fat cells shrink and hunger persists untill they are allowed to return to set point
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Restraint release

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  • environent cues that distract us from vognitive control (we think our will power is stronger than it actually is)
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Conterregulation

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  • paradoxical pattern of dieters who eat very little but after consuming high carbs they binge
45
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comphrehensive model of hunger

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combines short term (glucostatic hpyothesis) with longer term (lipostatic hypothesis influences with environment and psyhology

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Androgen

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found in men

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Estrogen

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found in women

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Traditional response cycle

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sexual arousal –> sexual response –> enable organsm

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Intimacy based model

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emotiona intimacy anticipates sexual desire and make women seuxally responsibe

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Where is oxytocin released?

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pituitary gland

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Facial metrics

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study of peole’s judgement of attractiveness of fcial characteristics

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3 facial metrics

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1) neonatal features - most effective for woman
2) sexual maturity - most effect for men
3) expressive features

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sexual scripts

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  • mental represenation of step-by-step sequence of events that occur during typical sexual episode
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Sexual schemas

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  • beliefs about ones sexual self make from past experiences (positive and negative) - ET and IT
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2 reasons that emotions end

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1) removal of signiicant event

2) coping beahviour is succsful

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2 ways to reconciile the numbers issues of whetehr meotions are basic or fundamental

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1) basic emotions are not a single emotion but a family
2) we have have basic emotions that expand to become higher secondary emotions and don’t feel primary emotions after childhood

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Emotion regulation strategies (2 types)

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1) proactive

2) reactive

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Situation seelection

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  • proactive

- early opporutnty to make event likely or not

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situation madification

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  • proactive - look to control the situation and support
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reapprasial

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  • proactive - change the way of thinking (primary appraisla - how you think of emotion) or secondary appraisal (how to cope with it)
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Supression

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  • reactive

- modify emotional expeirence

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Valence

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  • pleasure vs. displeasure
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Aoursal

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  • activation vs. deactivation
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Elated

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  • positive and activated
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Contented

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  • positeive and deactivated
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upset

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  • negative and actiavted
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gloomy

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  • negative and deactivated
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positeive affect

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  • reward drive (dopamine)
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negative effect

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  • punihsment -driven
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James-Lange Theory

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  • stimulus –> bodily reaction –> emotion

- no body reaction = no emotion

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Criticism of James Lange theory

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  • emotion experiences are faster than physiology

- role of physiology is to augment not cuase emotions

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3 distinct nueral circuits with emotions

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1) behavioural approach system
2) fight or flight
3) behavioural inhbition system

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What are the 5 basic emotions?

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1) fear
2) digust
3) joy
4) sadness
5) anger

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What is the facial feedback hypothesis?

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  • emtion comes from the awareness of proprioceptive feedback from the facial behaiour –> sends this image to cortical structure for conscious experience
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Frontalis

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  • forehead wrinkles
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Corugator

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  • draws eyebrow down for fear and sadness
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Orbicularis oculi

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  • tense eyelids
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Nasali

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  • wrinkles nose in digust
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Zygomaticus

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  • raise mouth for smile, joy
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Orbiculari oris

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  • press lips together for anger and digusts
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Quadratus labii

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  • pull mouth backward for fear
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Depressor

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  • pul mouth down for sadness
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Strong FFH

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  • change of faical muscles will activate emotional reponse to produce physiological one
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Weak FFH

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  • facial feedback modifies intensity of emotion; facial expression does not activat emotional experience (2 way street of emotions)
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Where do westerns look to detect facial expression?

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  • mouth - compared to the eyes which is more ambigious
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Appraisal of emotion (4 central compoents)

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1) without appriasl - no emitoin
2) appraisal cause emotion (not actual event)
3) is a process
4) changes

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Primary appraisal (lazarus)

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  • life relevance
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Secondary appraisal (lazarus)

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  • coping resources
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cognitive-motiation-realtional theory of emotion

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  • cognition commmunicates importance of apprasial
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Arnold (apraisal)

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  • like vs. dislike (valence)
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Lazarus (apprasial)

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  • primary = goal relevance

- secondary = coping

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Emotional diferent ion

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  • phenomemn that same even does not equal the same emotion = appraisal theory (this can occur within 1 episode)
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How much does cognitive appriasal account for ?

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65-70% accuracy

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5 reasons why appraisal can’t account fo everything

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1) other proceses contribute
2) only function to intensfy emotion (does not cause it)
3) emotions overlap
4) developmental differences
5) emotion knowledge and causal attributions

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Emotion knowledge

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  • stores cognitive hierarches
  • great knowledge = knowing how to identify and address it
  • general knowledge = know how to identify it
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Outcome dependent emotional reaction

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  • primary appraisal of the outcome follow after the good or bad event
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Secondary appraisal of the outcome

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  • further explain why they failed or successed
98
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3 concepts for emotional contagion

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1) mimicry
2) feedback
3) contagion

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Social sharing of emotion (2 ways)

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1) social affectively - provides support

2) cognitie sharing - provides support and cognitive resources to eliminate distress

100
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What is moralization?

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  • when people recruit disgust to pair it with something e.g. smoking
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2 motives of shame

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1) protect self

2) restore self

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2 types of pride

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1) authentic pride - internal, unstable, conrollable - promotes achievement
2) hubris pride - internal, stable, uncontrollable - narcissim

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2 emotional reactions to triump

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1) self expressive ebeaviour - raise body

2) social domainance - make fist and thumping

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2 types of envy

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1) bengin envy - upward motivation; believes person is deserving
2) malicious envy - downward motivation; believes person is undeserving

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Benefit detector (gratidue)

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  • emotional readout that one has benefited from generouity
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2 activations of gratitude

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1) kindness focus - positive and caring orientation; communal realtionship
2) benefit focus - negative and recriprocity orientation; exchcange relationship

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2 types of empathy

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1) cogntivie empathy - perspective taking

2) emotional empathy - focused on feelings