Psych Ch. 10

Psychology: Emotion and Motivation

Emotion

Subjective change in physiological arousal due to environment

4 components of emotion

Event/trigger → physiological change → affective experience → cognitive interpretation of experience

Mood

Long lasting; NO trigger

Polygraphs AREN’T supported by science

TRUE

Affect

Psychological experience of physiological state (How strong do you feel x emotion test)

Positive affect

Energy/engagement/joy/gratitude

Negative affect

Distress/fear/guilt/shame/little to no engagement

James Lange Theory of Emotion

Event → physical response = fear

Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion

event causes BOTH emotion/physical response SAME TIME

Schachter-Singer two factor theory of emotion

Emotion response due to physical response/cognitive label connection

How do we experience moods

Background influence on emotional experiences

We experience discrete separate emotions

True

6 basic emotions

Anger/disgust/fear/happy/sad/surprise

Self-presentation motivations

Present oneself to match expectations of group/self

Proximate explanations

Immediate/environmental causes of behavior

Conflict

Challenges organism’s genetic fitness

Face validity

Makes sense in our thoughts/behavior expectations

genetic fitness

Continue living and pass genes to next generation

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Top to bottom: Self-actualization/esteem/love and belonging/safety/physiological

lifetime reproductive potential

Produce max amount of offspring

naturalistic fallacy

Natural = good

need to belong

Make/maintain deep reciprocal social connections

ultimate explanations

Evolutionary reasons for our behavior

Men have greater lifetime reproductive potential than women

True! (men can make more offspring in short time amount)

Motivation

energizes us to engage in certain way