Chapter 8: Emotion and Motivation

EMOTION

Wednesday, February 3Aim: HW: Read pp Read pp.297 - 3031. Define and explain the four parts of emotion

2. What do emotions do for us?

3. Identify Paul Ekman's cultural universals in emotion.

4. Explain Plutchnik's emotion wheel

5. Why might there be gender differences in emotion?

6. Complete Check Your Understanding

Thursday, February 4

Aim: Why are emotions so important?

HW: Read pp. 304-311

1. Describe the biological pathways involved in emotion

2. Draw/ Sketch the two pathways (fast and slow)

3. What role do each of the following play in emotion

• Limbic system
• Reticular Formation
• Cerebral Cortex

4. Identify and explain the following theories of emotion

• James-Lange Theory
• Cannon- Bard Theory
• Two Factor Theory
• Cognitive Appraisal Theory
• Opponent Process theory

5. Is too much arousal good for performance?

6. What does the Inverted U Function indicate about performance?

7. Who are sensation seekers according to Zuckerman?

8. Check for Understanding

Friday, February 5

AIM:

NO H.W. - SENIOR SKI TRIP

Monday, February 8

Aim: How do the experts explain emotion?

HW: Read pp. 311-317

1. What was the result of the Marshmallow Test?
2. Identify important deception cues
3. Why are lie detectors inadmissible in most court rooms?
4. What is a false positive?
5. Identify some alternatives to polygraphs?
6. What is the purpose of Anger Management Programs?
7. Check Your Understanding

Spot the Fake Smile ( I was able to spot 15 correctly)

Tuesday, February 9

Aim:How much control do we have over our emotions?

Wednesday, February 10

HAPPY SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

H.W.: 318-325

1. Define motivation
2. Identify 4 ways a psychologist uses the concept of motivation?
3. What is the difference between a drive and a motivation according to psychologists?
4. What is the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation?
5. Explain the instinct theory.
6. What is the fixed -action pattern?
7. How does the drive theory differ from instinct theory?
8. What is the weakness of each of these theories in understanding human behavior?
9. What two factors are important in direction human behavior according to Rotter's Social Learning Theory.
10. Define locus of control

WE ARE OFF THURSDAY, FEBRUARY11 - ENJOY - YOU STILL HAVE HW

Thursday, February 11

Aim: What is motivation ? How does it differ from emotion?

1. How does Sigmund Freud explain motivation?
2. Identify the two basic desires in the id.
3. How does Freud's theory differ from the other theories covered in this chapter?
4. How does Maslow explain motivation?
5. What are the 5 needs according to priority in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs?
6. Where are you right now according to Maslow's theory?
7. What exceptions are made by psychologists to Maslow's theory?
8. Can rewards make an activity less enjoyable? Explain.
9. What is overjustification? How has the study been restructured?
10. Complete Check Your Understanding

Friday, February 12

Aim: Compare and contrast the key theories of motivation

HW: Vacation assignment will be posted - Please note you can e-mail me them I am counting these assignments as two quizzes which = a test

so please complete them in a timely fashion. Thanks!!! There will be an online test which follows

FEBRUARY BREAK ASSIGNMENT (HW)

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Topic 1: Read pp. 325-336: How are achievement, hunger, sex alike? Different? (counts as a quiz) Please email me assignment.

All answers must be in detail because I am adding extra weight counting as a quiz.

Evolutionary psychology has been successful in explaining drives rooted in biology but it has not shown the same promise in motivation.

1.What are some psychological causes for achievement?

2. a. How is achievement measured? b. Explain the TAT test in terms of high n Ach and low n Ach.

3. Remember the Marshmallow Test - Now see how this compares with the TAT test and long term impact on success

4. What role does the hypothalamus play in hunger?5. What role does set point play in eating, feeling of fullness and feeling of emptiness?6. Why do we eat sweet and fatty food?7. If we have these biological mechanisms to control and monitor what and how often we eat- why are so many Americans obese? Review figure 8.6 on p328

8. a. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any recognized mental disorder. What

role does nature and nurture play in this disorder?

9. Why is the stone age strategy of eating not suited to the modern world?

10. Explain the process of volumetric thirst and osmotic thirst as a drive.

11. How does pain differ from hunger and thirst as a drive?

12. a.How does sex differ from hunger and thirst?

b. How is it similar?

13. Why has the scientific study of sex been difficult for psychologists?

14. What study revolutionized the public's understanding of sexuality?15. a. How is Masters and Johnson a turning point in the study of sex and sexuality? b. What important conclusions did their research reveal? What role did this play in therapy?16. Why is the brain considered the most important sex organ?17. How do certain stimuli become a conditioned stimulus in motivating sex?18. Why are sexual scripts problematic?19. a. How have the sexes evolved different mating strategies? b. How has this triggered conflict?

20. Explain the 4 ways we deal with motives in conflict.

21. What is NOT a cause of sexual orientation?

22. What do researchers think is the cause of sexual orientation?

23. Check Your Understanding

FYI: Is there a gay gene and is this a problem?

Topic 2: How and Why do we experience stress? (Quiz 2)

Text read pp. 336-353

1. a. How do psychologists define stress? How does they define a stressor?
2. Identify three primitive stressors.
3. Identify the evolutionary script we use when faced with a threat.

4. What are examples of traumatic stressors?5. Why is it difficult for psychologists to research the effect catastrophe has on an individual?6. What are the five stages a victim experiences in wake of a natural or human-caused catastrophe?7. a. What types of trauma often cause PTSD? b. How does PTSD differ from PITS?

8. Identify some of the effects both PTSD and PITS has on the victim?

9. What effect do these have on the brain?

10. Identify and explain the four physical responses that occur following

stress.

12. What is the difference between acute stress and chronic stress?

13. a. What part of the brain is responsible for the flight or fight response?

b. How can the fight or flight response be harmful to individuals?

14. a. What is Hans Selye's important contribution to our understanding

of stress?

b. Explain how G.A.S. = STRESS

15. Identify and explain the three stage response to stress according to Selye.

16. So can you die from a broken heart ( stress cardiomyopathy) ? Explain

17. Identify and explain two alternatives to the flight or fight syndrome.

18. Women tend to nurture and men to withdraw when life gets hard. Identify the reasoning behind Shelley Taylor's Theory.

19. How does stress impact on the immune system?

20. How does mental processes affect the immune system?

21. What are the importance of cytokines?

22. What is the main factor if the immune system will help or harm health? Explain

23. How did cardiologists Friedman and Roseman categorize people?

24. Why are Type A people more likely to suffer from heart disease than Type B personalities?

25. Who are at most risk for heart disease?

26. Explain Seligman's concept of learned helplessness. in his dog experiments

27. How do you develop resilience to stress and change your mindset?

Are you type A or B?

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