Motivation and Emotion
External cues that grab your attention and influences your behavior
What is incentives?
Store of uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories that are out of or awareness.
What is Unconsciousness?
often smaller portions of population which wield less power than mainstream.
What is minority status?
We have to meet certain conditions if we are going to be considered worthy of love and affection from others.
What is conditions of worth?
idea that we all strive to be at an optimal level of arousal
What is arousal homeostasis?
Idealist principle: Motivation is to engage in morally perfect behavior
What is superego?
process of foreign-born individuals adopting mainstream/dominant culture.
What is acculturation?
the ability to recognize the causes and consequences of feelings or emotions in yourself and in others.
What is emotional intelligence?
behaviors directed toward obtaining rewards outside ourselves
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
What are the 3 levels of consciousness?
major life events, daily hassles, urban press, and conflict
What are stressors?
What is free will?
Happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, and surprise
What are the 6 basic emotions?
Reduces anxiety by taking uncomfortable impulses off the self and placing them onto others.
What is projection?
Hypothalamus -> Sympathetic nervous system -> adrenal medulla -> secretion of adrenaline
What is acute pathway stress?
Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
What does the Five Factor Theory consist of?
Behaviors driven by desires inside ourselves
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Ex: Someone has intense anger and channels those emotions into boxing
What is sublimation?
Problem-focused, emotion-focused, preventive coping, and proactive coping
What are 4 forms of coping?
Hypothalamus -> pituitary -> adrenal cortex -> secretion of cortisol
What is prolonged stress pathway?