Week 20- Motivation & Emotion Flashcards
Drive is what?
A reversible internal condition that affects the nature, strength and persistence of an individuals behaviour.
What is motivation?
A general term for phenomena that affect the nature, strength, and persistence of an individuals behaviour.
Psychologists classify drives as _______ and _____.
Regulatory and non regulatory.
Regulatory drives are those such as:
Hunger Thirst Thermoregulation Sleep All things that help us maintain physiological homeostasis and for our immediate survival.
Non regulatory drives fulfill other forms of evolutionary purposes such as:
Reproduction
Safety
Cooperation
Social (approval and acceptance drives us to cooperation)
Educative (play and exploration motivates us to practice our skills and learn about our environments
________ are reward seeking states.
Drives (motivational states)
Name a different area of the brain that serve as a hub or central drive systems
Hypothalamus (internal states: glucose levels, hydration, salts, internal temp, hormone levels) connected to pituitary gland so it can orchestrate the release of hormones
What is drive reduction theory?
Proposes that a drive produces an unpleasant state that causes an organism to engage in motivated behaviours. Reduction of drive is reinforcing.
What is the over-justification effect?
Hypothesis that predicts that people who shift from intrinsic to extrinsic for engaging in an activity will stop the activity if the extrinsic reward is removed. This cessation of previously enjoyable behaviour is the over justification effect.
What are the six basic emotions?
Happiness, fear, disgust, surprise, anger, contempt.
James Lange suggested that an emotional response comes after a
________ response.
ANS Response.
What does the Cannon-Bard theory propose?
That the brain controls emotion and the ANS response is merely coincidental to the emotional state.
What is Schachter’s Two Factor Theory?
Physical arousal plays a primary role in emotions. For a wide variety of emotions so physical arousal alone could not be responsible for emotional responses.
The ________ in the brain plays an important role in negative emotions such as fear and anger.
Amygdala
the ________ _______ in the brain suggests that this reading plays a role in our conscious experience of emotions and the more thoughtful and deliberative response to these emotions.
Prefrontal cortex
