Lecture 12 Flashcards
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What are emotions
Complex psychological state that involves
Subjective experience
Psyhcological response
Behavioural response
Subjective experience
Emotions tend me multi dimensional and highly subjective to each person
Five basic emotions
Sadness Joy Fear Disgust Anger
Psychological response
Automatic nervous system response in which body is controlling fight flight or freeze response
Part of brain that plays a role in emotion
Amygdala
Becomes active when people feel fear or threatening images
Behavioural response
Actual expression of emotion
Usually universal gestures but culture can play a role in expression and interpretation of emotions
Emotional intelligence
Ability to accurately interpret these expressions in others and themselves
Emotional competence (3) facets
Understanding or appraisal of emotions
Expression of emotion
Emotional regulation
When does anxiety in the classroom become clinical
When it impedes executive functioning
Examples - taking longer to complete tasks
Difficult participating in certain academic tasks
Difficult concentrating, listening and making decisions
Skipping school
What are some teacher supports for those who are anxious
Relaxation exercises
Social skills training
Positive self talk and coping cards
What is a common emotion seen in elementary classrooms
Frustration
When frustration is not properly expressed it may be acted out in physical and inappropriate ways
Why regulate emotions
Students who can regulate their emotions are more successful at learning tasks
Adolescents emotional regulation is more important to academic achievement than cognitive contributors
All starts with a trusting relationship with the teacher
Mastery oriented goals
Mastering the task according to self set standards or self improvement
Developing new skills or improving competence, trying to accomplish something challenging to gain understanding or insight
Performance oriented goals
Demonstrating competence or ability and how ability will be judged relative to others
Strives to be the best or even avoiding judgements of looking dumb
Approach oriented goals
Mastery and performance goals are spilt into individuals positively motivated to look good and receive favourable judgement from others
Avoidance oriented goals
Individuals can be negatively motivated to try to avoid failure or to avoid looking incompetent
What is the self determination theory
A theory that uses intrinsic and extrinsic sources of motivation as causes for behaviour
Motivation starts with a physiological and psychological need that activates a behaviour or a drive that is aimed at a goal
What are the three needs of self determination theory
Need for autonomy
Need for competence
Need for relatedness
Competence need of SDT
Understanding how to attain various internal and external goals
A desire to control and experience mastery so that goals are reached
Students need to gain mastery of a task and build upon these skills
Autonomy need of SDT
Being self initiating and self regulating of ones own actions
Having a sense of free will when doing something for ones own interests
Students need to feel in control of their own behaviour and goals
Relatedness need of SDT
Desire to interact with, be connected to and experience caring for other people
Students actions and daily activities involve other people
Involves developing secure and satisfying connections with others in ones social environment
Integrated regulation of SDT
Activities that are experienced freely because they are integrated with students sense of self
Students complete goal because it’s important and not for the sake of the activity itself
Ex) going to the gym because working out is part of your identity
Identified regulation SDT
Activities chosen because person identifies with the importance of it and may be a step towards self selected goal
Ex) study for a math tests because you want to be accepted into a specialized program
Intro jected regulation SDT
Activities controlled by internal demands such as guilt or embarrassment
Ex) you study for social studies because you want people to think you are good at the subject
