MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
Schadenfreude (German)
A feeling of pleasure over another person's difficulties (sadist)
Musu (Tahiti)
A feeling of reluctance to yield to unreasonable demands made by one's parents
Hagaii (Japanese)
A mood of vulnerable heartache colored by frustration
Emotions
Are feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that influence behavior
Extrinsic motivation
Comes from outside of the individual. External factors
Intrinsic motivation
Driven by your own velision
Preparing us for action
Emotions act as link between events in our emvironment and our responses
Shaping our future behavior
Emotions promote learning that will help us make appropriate response in the future
Facial-feedback hypothesis
Facial expressions not only reflect emotional experience but also help determine how people experience and label emotions
Prepare us for action, shaping our future behavior and helping us interact more effectively with others
Functions of emotions
Display rules
Guidelines that govern the appropriatness of showing emotion nonverbally
Instincts
Inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned
Fight or flight response
Kind of Responses
Cannon-Bard theory
The belief that both physiological arousal and emotional experience are produced simultaneously by the same nerve stimulus (I am crying because I am sad)
James-Lange theory
The belief that emotional experience is a reaction to bodily events occuring as a result of an external situation (I feel sad because I am crying)
Schachter-Singer theory
The belief that emotions are determined jointly by a nonspecific kind of physiological arousal and its interpretation, based on environmental cues
Motivation
The factors that direct and energize the behavior of humans and other organisms
Schachter-Singer theory
We identify the emotion we are experiencing by observing our environment and comparing ourselves with others
Helping us interact more effectively with others
We often communicate the emotions we experience through our verbal and non-verbal behaviors, making our emotions obvious to others
