PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Electrodermal Activity, Mental Scale, Affective Forecasting
2 Feb 2016
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Achievement motive: the need to master difficult challenged, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence. Affective forecasting: predictions of one"s emotional reaction to future events. Affiliation motive: the need to associate with others and maintain social bonds. Argument: one or more premises used to provide support for a conclusion. Assumptions: premises for which no proof or evidence is offered. Bisexuals: persons who seek emotional-sexual relationships with members of either sex. Body mass index (bmi): weight (in kilograms) divided by height (in metres) squared (kg/m2). Display rules: cultural norms that regulate the appropriate expressions of emotions. Drive: an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tension. Emotion: a subjective conscious experience (the cognitive component) accompanied by bodily arousal (the physiological component) and by characteristic overt expressions (the behavioural component)
