Motivation and Emotion | PSYC - Psychology, Quizzes of Psychology

Download Motivation and Emotion | PSYC - Psychology and more Quizzes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Motivation DEFINITION 1 An internal state or condition that serves to activate or energize behavior and give it directionMotivation controls goal directed behaviour TERM 2 Approaches to Understanding Motivation DEFINITION 2 1. Evolutionary2. Biological3. Cognitive TERM 3 Evolutionary Motivation DEFINITION 3 Motivation promotes behaviors that increase the probability that genes will be passed to successive generations TERM 4 Biological Motivation DEFINITION 4 Motivation promotes the maintenance of homeostasis.Drives are states that motivate the organism to maintain equilibriumControl Center --- Sensors --- Response System ---- Internal State --- TERM 5 Cognitive Motivation DEFINITION 5 Motivation is a product of the strength of expectation that particular behaviors will lead to a goal, and the value that the person places on the goal.Motivation X Expectancy = Incentive Value TERM 6 Extrinsic Motivations DEFINITION 6 Performing an activity to obtain an external regard or avoid Punishmente.g. The motivation to eat TERM 7 Intrinsic Motivations DEFINITION 7 Performing an Activity for its own sakee.g. The motivation to read TERM 8 What regulates our food intake? DEFINITION 8 1. Physiological Factors2. Psychological Factors3. Environmental Factors TERM 9 Metabolism DEFINITION 9 Rate of Caloric Utilization TERM 10 Short Term Signals DEFINITION 10 Satiety is signaled by stomach distention and chemical signalsNervous Signal Hormonal Signal TERM 21 Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict DEFINITION 21 Opposition between 2 unattractive goals TERM 22 Approach-Avoidance Conflict DEFINITION 22 A goal that carries both attractive and unattractive outcomes TERM 23 Emotion DEFINITION 23 A state of arousal that is influenced by physiological, cognitive and cultural influencesEmotions are NOT necessarily goal directed TERM 24 Primary Emotions DEFINITION 24 Emotions considered to be universal and biologically basedE.g. Anger, fear, sadness, joy, surprise, disgust TERM 25 Secondary Emotions DEFINITION 25 Emotions that develop with cognitive maturity and vary across individuals and culturese.g. Shame, Guilt, Joviality TERM 26 Universal Emotions DEFINITION 26 Surprise, Disgust, Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Contempt TERM 27 Function of Facial Expression DEFINITION 27 1. To express internal States, signal feelings or intentions towards others, and/or serve as a first means of communication TERM 28 Cultural Differences in Emotions DEFINITION 28 1. The attention they pay to the context of emotional Expression2. Familiarity affects the ability to read facial expressions3. Facial Expressions can mean different things at different times, depending on the social context and the expresser's intentions TERM 29 Emotion and the Brain DEFINITION 29 Emotion is regulated by the AMYGDALAThe Amygdala receives direct projections from the thalamus TERM 30 Valence Hypothesis DEFINITION 30 Left Hemisphere = Positive EmotionsRight Hemisphere = Negative Emotions TERM 31 Hormones and Emotions DEFINITION 31 Emotional Arousal will foster the release of Epinephrine andNoraepinephrine (automatic arousal) TERM 32 Mobius Syndrome DEFINITION 32 The inability to express emotionCaused by a rare genetic disorder affecting Cranial Nerves VI and VII (facial muscular control) TERM 33 Autism DEFINITION 33 An inability to interpret EmotionIndividuals with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome can recognize face, but not identify emotion. TERM 34 James-Lange Theory of Emotion DEFINITION 34 Emotion is the perception of the response given physiologicallyEmotion is elicited by autonomic system activity TERM 35 Schacter-Singer Theory of Emotion DEFINITION 35 The experience of emotion depends on both physiological arousal and the cognitive interpretation of that arousal