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Motivation
Exam One: Chapter Eleven
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
01/25/2010

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What are "emotions"?
Definition
physiological and experiential responses that aid adaptation and challenges faced during life events
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What do emotions do?
Definition
they are a first response system that coordinate physiological, psychological, social and behavioral responses

also good for social communication
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What are "purposive emotions"?
Definition
generate subjective feelings, arouse body into action, generate motivational states
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What are the five basic components of emotion?
Definition
Environment ->
Emotional Processing (primary appraisal) ->
Automatic Processing (if-then) ->
Symbolic Processing (conscious/purposeful) ->
Behavior
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What are the four dimensions of emotion?
Definition
- Subjective
- Motivational
- Biological
- Social
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What are subjective emotions?
Definition
Feelings and cognitions
- fear, anxiety, happiness
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What are biological emotions?
Definition
physiological activation and motor responses
- beh inhibtion system
- right prefrontal lobe activation
- sympathetic nervous system
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What are motivational emotions?
Definition
create goal-directed motivational states and activate behavior program
- what you do, new goals
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What are social emotions?
Definition
facial, postural, vocal signs which communicate quality and intensity of emotion
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What two ways do emotions and motivations relate?
Definition
- Emotions act as motives which energize behavior
- Emotions act as feedback for adaptation, base how you act on positive vs. negative emotions
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What two processes react in adaptive ways to significant life events?
Definition
- biological
- cognitive
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What evidence is there for the biological influence one emotions?
Definition
- emotions processed in primitive brain systems such as limbic
- induced by noncognitive procedures
- experienced by newborns and nonhumans
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What evidence is there for the cognitive influence on emotions?
Definition
- emotion depends on personal relevance (no meaning, no emotion)
- attributions influence emotion
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What are the two systems of emotion?
Definition
- Implicit/Impuslive
- Explicit/Reflective
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What are the characteristics of the implicit system?
Definition
- innate, biological
- primitive (midbrain)
- unconcious
- few congnitive resources
- fast acting
- slow learning

Involves automatic and emotional processing
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What are the characteristics of the explicit system?
Definition
- experience based
- learned
- frontal cortex
- conscious
- high cognitive resources
- slow acting
- fast learning

uses symbolic processing
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How many primary emotions exist?
Definition
Between 2 and 10
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What are primary emotions?
Definition
- implicit system
- primary appraisal
- biological
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What are secondary emotions?
Definition
- cognitive
- explicit system
- too many to count
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Why are emotions useful?
Definition
- adaptive/survival purposes
- coping functions
- cognitive functions
- organizing behavior
- social communication of feelings, being/end interactions
- impact performance
- impact motivation
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What is Positive Affect?
Definition
everyday, low level, general state of feeling good. does not influence attention or behavior.
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What distinguishes emotion from mood?
Definition
- specific target and types
- short duration
- potent
- conscious
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What distinguishes mood from emotion?
Definition
- no target
- positive or negative valence
- long duration
- diffuse
- outside or bordering awareness
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