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Motivation
Exam 3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
11/15/2012

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Set-point for happiness emerges from
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Extraversion
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Set-point for unhappiness emerges from
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Neuroticism
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3 points of extraversion
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Sociability, Assertiveness, Social dominance
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Sensitive BAS is a associated with
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Extraversion
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Sensitive BIS is associated with
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Neuroticism
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Arousal
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Represents a variety of processes that govern alertness, wakefulness and activation
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Sensation seeking (Biological Bases)
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High dopamine
Low Serotonin
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Affect-intense
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emotions are really "+" and really "-"
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Affect-stable
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experience ild emotions and show minor fluctuations
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Self-confirming cylce
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inc. ctrl >> inc. effort >> inc. performance >> inc. ctrl
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emotional labor
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effort and control needed to express organizationally-desired emotions at work
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Denial
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not acknowledged, ignored
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Fantasy
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Imaginary omnipotent achievement
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Projection
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attributing one's own unacceptable desire or impulse onto someone else. "The teacher is an idiot"
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Displacement
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Anger at someone or something else
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Identification
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taking on characteristics of someone perceived as successful
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Regression
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returning to an earlier stage of development
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Reaction formation
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Expressing the opposite of one's true feelings or motives
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Rationalization
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selecting a logic thought to explain an unacceptable thought
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anticipation
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forecasting future danger and coping step by step
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Humor
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accepting short-comings and talking about it in a socially acceptable way
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Sublimation
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unacceptable anxiety into a source of energy with no adverse consequences
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4 components of emotion
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subjective (feelings)
biological (bodily arousal)
purposive (sense of purpose)
social phenomena (social-expressive)
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Emotion as motivation (2 functions)
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1.) as a motivation (energize and direct behavior)
2.) as a "readout" feedback of how well/poorly we are adapting
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6 Basic Emotions
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Fear, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, Joy, Interest
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Coping function of emotions
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Channel attention where it is needed
Prepare us to respond to tasks
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Social function of emotions
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communicate feelings to others
influence how others interact with us
invite/facilitate social interaction
create maintain and dissolve relationships
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3 differences of emotion and mood
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different antecedents (conscious vs. unconscious)
different action-specificity (behavior vs. cognition)
different time course (long vs. short)
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James-Lange Theory
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emotions make sense of bodily reactions
arousal pattern for each emotion
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Left prefrontal cortex
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BAS joy/pos. affect
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Right prefrontal cortex
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BIS fear/neg. affect
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Differential Emotions Theory
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Basic emotions serve different motivational purposes
Unique feeling
expression
neural activity
purpose/motivation
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Facial Feedback Hypothesis
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Emotion as awareness of proprioceptive feedback from facial behavior
facial expression>>emotion>>discrete expression
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Appraisal
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is an estimate of the personal significance of the event
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Attribution
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the reason used in order to explain an important life outcome
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Arnold's Theory of Appraisal
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situation>>appraisal>>emotions>>action
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Lazarus Primary & Secondary appraisal
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Primary- extent of personal risk
Secondary- ability to cope/expectations
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Emotion Contagion
Definition
the tendency to automatically mimic and synchronize expressions, vocalizations, postures and movements with those of another person, and consequently to converge emotionally
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