emotions and motivations Flashcards
emotion
postitive or negative reaction immediatly following and event or thought
primary emotion
innate, univarsal, such as anger, fear, sadness, disgust, joy
secondary emotion
are a combination of primary emotions, such as shame, regret, guilt, love ,jealousy
emotions in two dimesions
valence (positive or negative) and arousal (psychological activation or increased autonomic response)
limbic system
region in the brain that involves emotions. Main structures are amygdala and insula. The insula recieves and integrates somatosensory signals from the body (disgust, anger, guilt, fear). The amygdala is involved with classical conditioning of fear repsonse, processes the emotional meaning of stimuli and produces and immediate response
facial feedback theory
the changing facial expression changes the emtional state of ones experience
misattribution of arousal
if the physical state is attricuted to the wrong emotion, bridge test, unstable bridge person on the other side more attractive, stable less attractive
facial expressions communicate emotions
eyes and mouth are most important, they can help predict the behavior of others. the context in which a person expresses is also important, screaming in an ally is alarming but screaming in a horro movie is normal
motivation
process that energises, directs and esures that behaviour continues until the goal is achieved
hierarchy of needs (maslow)
bottom physiological needs (food breathing) top self realisation (when a persons dreams and asperations are fulfilled)
homeostasis
bodies funtion to maintan balance
incentives
external object or goals that motivate behviour
extrinsic motivation
focused on an external goal (getting a good grade when studying)
intrisic motivation
internalised value, as the activity is associated with pleasure ( studying out of interest)
self determination theory
argues that extrinsic rewards reduce intrinsice value because people no longer feel like theyre choosing to do this themselves
