Emotion and Motivation
Class Psychology Foundations: The Social Self
Materials https://youtu.be/LYf_zEpKFsI?list=PLLcM6ovOv3ck4vk6EFirP8ntSDORNU461
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Learning outcomes:
1. Define emotion and describe its purpose
2. Explain the major theories of emotion
3. Evaluate the biological, social and cultural influences on emotion
4. Analyse the role of emotion in communication
5. Apply the theory of emotional intelligence
6. Explain the different theories of motivation
7. Analyse the control of hunger and eating
8. Describe human sexual behaviour
On completion of this lesson you will be able to:
Define emotion.
Explain the social, and cultural influences on emotion.
Evaluate the role of cultural factors in expressing, perceiving, and regulating emotion.
Analyse the role of emotion in communication.
Understand the potential for cultural stereotyping and prejudice.
Class Meeting: 15/03/2023
The following items will be addressed in this class meeting:
Sam's progress
Sources of motivation
Achievement motivation approach
Become an emotion researcher activity
Learning Outcome 1: Define emotion and describe its purpose
Emotion: A temporary and complex state consisting of a positive, negative, or mixed felt experience that is associated with
Emotion - a body and minds integrated response to a stimulus of some kind. Emotions involve physiological arousal, expressive
Arousal means - increase in reactivity of wakefulness that primes us for some kind of action.
Importance of Emotion:
A driver in much of what we do.
When we are aware of our emotions, how to manage them, being aware of emotions of others it help us make positive and
Our actions have the ability to alter the emotion of others daily for better or for worse.
We have our emotions as well to be aware of, how they influence us and how others can influence them.
Emotions are intrinsically motivating
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, E-motion - they set things in motion
Understanding emotion and managing our own emotions so they help us reach our goals rather than being at the mercy of o
The ability to accurately perceive, understand and regulate emotions of yourself and others has been linked with better decis
Learning Outcome 2: Explain the major theories of emotion
Theories Explanation
Darwin’s Evolution Evolution of emotion, emotional expressions have evolved over time to serve some function. Fo
James-Lang (1884) Emotional experience arising from a specific physiological pattern in response to a stimulus
Cannon-Brad (1927) Our physiological reaction and emotional experience are parallel, independent processes, a
Schachter-Singer - Two Factor Theory (1962) The two-factor theory argues that our physiological responses do play a role in our emotional exp
💡 James Lang: our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotional-arousal
💡 Cannon-Bard: an emotion arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological response, (2) the subject
💡 Scratcher-Singer: 2-Factor Theory: to experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively labe
Learning Outcome 3: Evaluate the biological, social and cultural influences on emotion
Influences:
Biological: basic or primary emotions are biologically based emotions that are discrete. small number of distinct emotions t
Discrete emotion theorists have said that each primary emotion is associated with a distinctive constellation of facial exp
Research proposes that each individual emotion has a biological root.
Emotions have becomes known through generalised facial expressions that is universally accepted.
Social: Social influences include things such as: expression of body language and vocalisation.
Social influences on emotion is highly based on….
Cultural: Other challenges faced in cross-cultural emotion research include accurately translating
emotions across cultures
The translation of emotion into cultures differ based on cultural differences and experiences of different emotions.
Some research has shown there doesn’t exist an exact translation in Hindi for the English equivalent of the emotion disg
Learning Outcome 4: Analyse the role of emotion in communication
Understanding potential cultural differences around emotions gives us a better degree of cultural intelligence, that is the ability to
cultural differences in emotion it is often complex. There are some aspects that are universal across cultures, such as the fact th
Paul Ekman: facial expressions relating to different emotions.
Seven (7) basic or primary types of emotion.
1. Anger -
2. Surprise -
3. Fear -
4. Sadness -
5. Disgust - arrowed eyes, eyebrows pulled down, the nose wrinkled, and the top lip raised
6. Happiness -
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