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motivation + emotion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| motivation | the drive to seek a goal, such as food, water or friends. |
| emotion | state of the body causing feelings, such as hope, fear and love. |
| causes of hunger | - hypothalamus has glucose monitors - learned behavior, food on tounge = satisfaction - taste, can turn off hunger |
| causes of thirst | - hypo signals dryness of tongue, desire for water + balance of water in the body cells |
| Intrinsic motivation | Motivation that comes from withing the individual (motivated because you want to complete a task, because you love an activity, etc). |
| extrinsic motivation | motivation that comes from outside the individual (grades, money, rewards, punishments, etc.) |
| value of intrinsic & extrinsic motivation | intrinsic motivation produces better results, when motivated to do something because of enjoyment the activity is done better. however extrinsic can be just as valuable |
| contact comfort | satisfaction obtained from pleasant, soft physical stimulation |
| opponent-process theory | emotions are experienced as pairs of opposites. when we are feeling one emotions, we do not feel the opposite emotion. (if were happy, were not sad) |
| james-lange theory | our physical reactions happen first and cause our emotions |
| cannon-bard theory | we recognize an emotion and have a physical reactions at the exact same time. (one does not cause the other, they happen together. |
| schachter's cognitive theory | our cognitive interpretation of the event and physical reactions cause our emotions. |