Motivation and Emotion
Quiz: Friday, March 4
In this part of the course, students explore biological and social factors that motivate behavior and biological and cultural factors that
influence emotion.
 Identify and apply basic motivational concepts to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.
 Discuss the biological underpinnings of motivation, including needs, drives, and homeostasis.
 Compare and contrast motivational theories including the strengths and weaknesses of each.
 Describe classic research findings in specific motivation systems.
 Discuss theories of stress and the effects of stress on psychological and physical well-being.
 Compare and contrast major theories of emotion.
 Describe how cultural influences shape emotional expression, including variations in body language.
 Identify key contributors in the psychology of motivation and emotion.
Outline
I.
Motivation
A. Basics
1. Instincts
2. Drive & Incentives
a. Drive Reduction Theory
b. Homeostasis
c. Incentives
3. Arousal
4. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
B. Hunger
1. Physiology
a. Body Chemistry
i. Glucose
ii. Basal Metabolic Rate
b. Brain Determinants
i. Hypothalamus
ii. Hormones (insulin-leptin-orexinghrelin-PYY)
2. Psychology
a. Taste Preference
b. Eating Disorders
C. Sex
1. Physiology
a. Response Cycle (excitement-plateauorgasm-resolution)
b. Disorders
c. Hormones (estrogen-testosterone)
2. External v. Imagined Stimulation
3. Adolescence
a. Pregnancy
b. STIs
4. Orientation
a. Brain-Genetics-Hormones
b. Environmental Influences
D. The Need to Belong
1. Survival
2. Wanting to Belong
3. Relationships
4. Ostracism
5. Health
E. Work
1. Job-Career-Calling
2. Flow State
3. Achievement Motivation
a. Satisfaction & Engagement
b. Managing & Leadership
i. Task v. Social Leadership
II.
Emotion
A. Theories
1. James-Lange
2. Cannon-Bard
3. Two-Factor
B. Embodied Emotion
1. Physiology
a. ANS-Sympathetic & Parasympathetic
b. Similarities & Differences
2. Cognition
C. Expression
1. Facial Expressions & Body Language
2. Gender
3. Culture
D. Experienced
1. Fear
a. Phobias
2. Anger
a. Catharsis
3. Happiness
a. Feel-good, Do-good Phenomenon
b. Subjective Wellness
c. Wealth & Wellbeing
d. Adaptation-level Phenomenon
e. Relative Deprivation
f. Predictors
Motivation: __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emotion: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Achievement Motivation: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Adaptation Level Phenomenon: _________________________________________________________________________________
Anorexia: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Body Language: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Bulimia: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Catharsis: __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Drive: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emaciation: _________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emotional Hormones: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Estrogen: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Extrinsic Motivation: __________________________________________________________________________________________
Facial Expression: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon: ______________________________________________________________________________
Flow State: _________________________________________________________________________________________________
Homeostasis:________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hypothalamus: ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Incentive: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Instinct: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Intrinsic Motivation: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
James-Lange Theory: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Management v. Leadership: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: ___________________________________________________________________________________
Need: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Obese: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ostracism: __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Polygraph: __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Relative Deprivation Theory: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Sexual Orientation: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Sexual Response Cycle: _______________________________________________________________________________________
Social Leadership: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Spillover Effect: ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Task Leadership: _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Testosterone: _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Two-Factor Theory: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
People to Know
 Philip Bard
 Walter Cannon
 William James
 Carl Lange
 Richard Lazarus
 Abraham Maslow
 Stanley Schachter
 Jerome Singer