Achievement Motivation & Emotion

This set of flashcards covers key terms and concepts related to achievement motivation and emotion, as discussed in the lecture notes.

Achievement Motivation

The need to excel and the drive to achieve success, characterized by persistence and delayed gratification.

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

A projective psychological test used to assess achievement motives and themes through storytelling.

Cognitive component of emotion

The subjective conscious experience that accompanies an emotional state, part of emotional experience.

Physiological component of emotion

The bodily responses, including autonomic arousal associated with emotions, such as fight or flight.

Polygraph

An instrument that measures physiological responses (like GSR and heart rate) to detect emotions or lies.

Facial feedback hypothesis

The theory that facial expressions can influence emotional experiences through muscle signals.

Two-factor theory of emotion

A theory that states that emotions are based on physiological arousal and a cognitive label for that arousal.

Schacter’s Two-Factor Theory

A theory that suggests people identify their emotions based on physiological arousal and environmental cues.

Embodied cognition

The theory that body states influence mental states, such as how physical feelings can affect emotional responses.

Context dependent learning

The improved recall of specific episodes or information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same.

Continuous reinforcement

A schedule of reinforcement in which every desired response is reinforced, leading to fast acquisition.

Intermittent reinforcement

A schedule of reinforcement that only reinforces some of the desired responses, resulting in slower extinction.

Fixed ratio schedule

A schedule where reinforcement is delivered after a specific number of responses.

Variable ratio schedule

A reinforcement schedule that delivers reinforcement after an unpredictable number of responses.