Chapter 8: Emotion & Motivation

Question 0

Explain: James - Lange theory

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The theory that a stimulus triggers activity in the body, which in turn produces an emotional experience in the brain

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Define: Emotion

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A positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity

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Explain: Cannon-Bard theory

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The theory that a stimulus simultanesouly triggers activity in the body and emotional experience in the brain

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Explain: two-factor theory

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The theory that emotions are based on inferences about the causes of physiological arousal

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Define: Appraisal

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An evaluation of the emotion-relevant aspects of a stimulus

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Define: Emotion Regulation

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The strategies people use to influence their own emotional experience

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Define: Reappraisal

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Changing one’s emotional experience by changing the way one thinks about the emotion-eliciting stimulus

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Define: Emotional Expression

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An observable sign of an emotional state

Question 8

Define: Universality Hypothesis

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Emotional expressions have the same meaning for everyone

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Define: Facial Feedback Hypothesis

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Emotional expressions can cause the emotional experience they signify

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Define: display rule

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A norm appropriate expression of emotion, i.e. hiding contempt for mean boss

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Define: motivation

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Refers to the purpose for or psychological cause of an action

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Define: Hedonic Principle

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The claim that people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

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Define: Homeostasis

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The tendency for a system to take action to keep itself in a particular state

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Define: Drive

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An internal state caused by physiological needs

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Define: Metabolism

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Refers to the rate at which energy is used by the body

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Define: Intrinsic Motivation

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Is a motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding. These activities don’t have a payoff, they are themselves the payoff.

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Define: Extrinsic Motivation

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A motivation to take actions that lead to reward

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Define: Conscious Motivations

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Motivations of which people aware

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Define: Unconscious Motivations

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Motivations of which people are not aware

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Define: Need for Achievement

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The motivation to solve worthwhile problems

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Define: Avoidance Motivation

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A motivation not to experience a negative outcome

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Explain: Terror Management Theory

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A theory about how people respond to knowledge of their own mortality. How people cope with their existential terror by developing “cultural worldview” .

Question 23

Emotions can be described by their location on the two dimensions of…

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Arousal and Valence

Question 24

Which theorist claimed that a stimulus simultaneously causes both an emotional experience and physiological reaction?

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Cannon-Bard

Question 25

Which brain structure is most directly involve in the rapid appraisal of whether a stimulus is good or bad?

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The amygdala

Question 26

Through ____, we change an emotional experience by changing the meaning of the emotion-eliciting stimulus.

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Reappraisal

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______ is the idea that emotional expressions can cause emotional experiences.

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The facial feedback hypothesis

Question 28

Two friends have asked you to help them settle a disagreement. You hear each side of the story and have an emotional response to one viewpoint, but you don't express it. This is an example of which display rule?

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Neutralizing

Question 29

Which of the following does NOT provide any distinguish sincere from insincere expressions? -temporal patterning, duration, symmetry, levity-

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Temporal patterning

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The hedonic principle states that

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People are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain

Question 31

According to the early psychologist, an un,earned tendency to seek a particular goal is called..

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An instinct