Motivation And Emotion (2C)

Question 1

What is affiliation?

Answer 1

Need to form attachments to other people for support, guidance, and protection

Question 2

What are some positive aspects of affiliation?

Answer 2

• From brith we seek connections to others
• Relationships increase self-esteem
• People with social connection experience less depression
• people in healthy relationships live longer

Question 3

What are some negative consequences of affiliations?

Answer 3

• People stay in abuse relationships and join gangs in an effort to belong
• Social exclusion activates the same region of the brain as physical pain (anterior cingulate cortex)
• Long-term isolation can lead to permanent psychological damage

Question 4

What does the self determination they say?

Answer 4

Suggests tat competence, relatedness, and autonomy give meaning to life and are instinctive

Question 5

Describe the Achievement:Delaying Gratification

Answer 5

• Social Motivations are learned
• Need to learn to work towards long-term goals
• Requires relay of gratification and impulse control
• Prefrontal correct is necessary to comprehend and develop long-term goals - fully developed after puberty

Question 6

What is an emotion?

Answer 6

an intrapersonal state in response to an internal or external event

Question 7

What are the four components of emotion?

Answer 7

1. Physiological - changes in bodily arousal
   EX: increase in heart rate
2. Cognitive, feeling - subjective appraisal and temptation of one’s feelings and environment
3. Physical, behavioural - expression of emotion verbally or no verbally EX: smiling
4. Emotional, behavioural - keeping the emotion present (happiness) or removing it (sadness)

Question 8

What are some ways to detect emotion (lies)

Answer 8

They are psycophsiological reactions:
- Face electromyography
- Heart Rate
- Skin conductance
- fMRI

Question 9

What are some cognitive functions of emotions?

Answer 9

• They help organize and retrieve memories
• They priories concerns, needs, and goals
• They guide judgements and help us make decisions

Question 10

What are some behavioural functions of emotions?

Answer 10

Emotions alter behaviours

Question 11

What are action tendencies?

Answer 11

Emotions are associated with predictable patterns of behaviour that help us adapt and survive

Question 12

What are some social functions of emotions?

Answer 12

• Emotions are the foundation of relationships
• Emotions help improve relationship quality
• Emotions help empathy and work performance

Question 13

What are three ways of measuring emotions?

Answer 13

1. Behavioural displays: Most often observed by objective rates
2. Self-Reports: Most wildly used approach in measuring a person’s emotional experiences
   3.Physiological Reactions: based on the premise that emotions vary biologically from one another and sasses there are distinct physiological patterns associated with particular emotions