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Motivation and Emotion

Motivation and Emotion. Motivation. internal processes that activate, guide, and maintain our behavior. Drive-Reduction Theory. Theories of Motivation. Drive-Reduction Theory Humans sometimes engage in behaviors that increase rather than reduce drives Arousal Theory

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Motivation and Emotion

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  1. Motivation and Emotion

  2. Motivation internal processes that activate, guide, and maintain our behavior

  3. Drive-Reduction Theory

  4. Theories of Motivation • Drive-Reduction Theory • Humans sometimes engage in behaviors that increase rather than reduce drives • Arousal Theory • Motivated to be at optimal level of arousal

  5. Yerkes-Dodson Law • There is an optimal level of arousal for the best performance of any task. • The more complex the task, the lower the level of arousal that can be tolerated before performance deteriorates.

  6. Theories of Motivation • Incentive theories • Motivation  incentives/pay offs • Cognitive approaches • thoughts, expectations, and goals • Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation

  7. Intrinsic motivation • A desire to perform a behavior originates within the individual • Extrinsic motivation • A desire to perform a behavior to obtain an external reward or avoid punishment

  8. Maslow’s Hierarchy

  9. Identify the motive… • Have I got a terrible headache. It’s really splitting. • It gets lonely in my apartment on the weekends. My roommate goes to visit her parents and most of my neighbors are away too. • I feel really bored by this course. It’s a lot like the one I took last year. I was hoping it would be more challenging.

  10. Identify the motive… • He really makes me furious. I’m tired of his put-downs! Who does he think he is anyway? • Uh, listen, do you mind if we don’t go into that nightclub? I hear that some tough types hang out there and that someone got beaten up there last week. • Hey, guess what? I just got an A+ on my term paper. Pretty good, eh?

  11. Human Needs & Motivation • Hunger and Thirst • stimulated by internal and external cues • Hypothalamus (lateral and ventromedial) • Blood levels • Glucose, fats, carbohydrates, insulin, leptin • Cells in stomach and small intestine

  12. Insulin: secreted by pancreas; controls blood glucose Leptin: protein secreted by fat cells; when abundant, causes brain to increase metabolism and decrease hunger Orexin: hunger-triggering hormone secreted by hypothalamus Ghrelin: hormone secreted by empty stomach; sends “I’m hungry” signals to brain PYY: digestive tract hormone; sends “I’m not hungry” signals to brain

  13. Human Needs & Motivation • Hunger & Thirst • Sights and smells • Body Mass Index (BMI) • Stress

  14. Motivations-to-Eat (Jackson et al., 2003) • Suggests that there are four specific motivations for eating beyond the “need” for nourishment • To cope with negative affect • To be social • To comply with others’ expectations • To enhance pleasure

  15. Means • Females • 1.78 coping • 2.74 social • 1.60 compliance • 2.33 pleasure • Males • 1.40 coping • 2.66 social • 1.54 compliance • 2.28 pleasure

  16. Eating Disorders • Anorexia nervosa • A serious eating disorder that is associated with an intense fear of weight gain and a distorted body image • Bulimia nervosa • An eating disorder characterized by binges of eating followed by self-induced purging

  17. Eating Disorders • Increased incidence in relatives • Serotonin • Perfectionism • Dissatisfaction with body

  18. Ladies Home Journal poll (2003) On a scale from 1-10, 43% rated bodies between 6-9. 1% rated perfect, 20% ranked themselves at 5 One out of three said they were currently on a diet When given a choice between a facelift or a refurbished kitchen, 78% chose the kitchen

  19. 52% would rather have smaller hips or thighs than a two-week vacation “to get away from it all” 87% said it’s more acceptable for men to go gray and get out of shape than it is for women 75% said they would rather have a root canal than wear a thong bikini

  20. Need for Affiliation • Interest in establishing and maintaining relationships with others • Ostracism

  21. Emotions Body Response (arousal) Expressive Reaction Conscious Experience

  22. Emotions • Primary emotions • Secondary emotions

  23. James-Lange Theory • Certain stimuli in the environment can bring on physiological changes. • Emotions arise from our awareness of those changes. • Facial feedback hypothesis

  24. Neuroscience of Emotions • Specific patterns of biological arousal associated with specific emotions • PET scans • Amygdale  link between perception of stimulus and recall of stimulus later

  25. Communicating Emotions • Voice Quality and Facial Expression • Body language • Personal space • Explicit Acts

  26. Gender and Emotion • Research findings • Men and women may feel emotions similarly, but differ in how they are expressed. • Same situation may provoke different emotions. • Women are better at reading emotional cues than men.

  27. Anger Response to perceived misdeeds Common when acts are seen as willful, unjustified, and avoidable Can promote prejudice and heart disease Catharsis hypothesis

  28. Happiness • Feel-good, do-good phenomenon • Subjective well-being • Self-perceived happiness/satisfaction with life

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