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Chapter 10
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/19/2024

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Emotion:

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is an immediate, specific negative, or positive response to environmental events or internal thoughts.

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Feeling:

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Is the subjective experience of the emotion such as feeling scared but not the emotion itself

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Moods:

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are diffuse, long lasting emotional states that do not have an identifiable trigger or a specific behavioral and physiological response.

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Primary Emotions
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innate, evolutionary adaptive, and universal across cultures, these emotions include anger, fear, sadness, disgust, happiness, surprise, and contempt.

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Secondary Emotions
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are blends of primary emotions, feelings about emotions, or emotions that relate to culturally specific values or concepts including emotions such as remorse, guilt, shame, jealousy, pride, love and contentment.

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James-Lange theory of emotion
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people perceive specific patterns of bodily responses, and as a result of that perception they feel emotion.
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Cannon-Bard theory of emotion:
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proposed that the mind and body experience emotions independently. Information about the emotional stimuli is sent simultaneously to the cortex and the body and results in emotional experience and bodily reactions, respectively 
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Schachter-Singer two-factor theory of emotion
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a label applied to a physiological arousal result in the experience of an emotion. When people misidentify the source of their arousal, it is called misattribution of arousal.

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Motivation:

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a process that energizes, guides, and maintains behavior toward a goal

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extrinsic motivation: 

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is to perform an activity because of the external goals toward which that activity is directed.

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self-efficacy: 

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the expectation that your efforts will lead to success.

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achievement motive:

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the desire to do well relative to standards of excellence

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Grit
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a factor that is related to a person’s ability to achieve long-term goals. (Passion for their goals, will work hard in spite of hardships)
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display rules: 
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rules learned through socialization that dictate which emotions are suitable to given situations.
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Ideal affect:

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refers to the types of emotions that cultures value and encourage people to display

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Self-actualization:
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a state that is achieved when one’s personal dreams and aspirations have been attained.
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Yerkes-Dodson law: 

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the psychological principle that performance on challenging tasks increases with arousal up to a moderate level; after that, additional arousal impairs performance.

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Incentives:

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external objects or external goals, rather than internal drives, that motivate behaviors.

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Identify core values and describe how they relate to consistency:

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strongly held beliefs about the enduring principles that are most important and meaningful. Values promote emotions and actions when they are aroused or threatened.

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Describe the need to belong theory: 

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the theory that the need for interpersonal attachments is a fundamental motive that has evolved for adaptive purposes.

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Need hierarchy:

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Maslow’s arrangement of needs, in which basic survival needs must be met before people can satisfy higher needs.

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Drive:
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a psychological state that by creating arousal motivates an organism to satisfy a need
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intrinsic motivation:
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is to perform an activity because of the value or pleasure associated with that activity, rather than for an apparent external goal or purpose.
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