PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Paul Ekman, Frontal Lobe, Emotion Classification

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Lazarwicz

Document Summary

Need to belong: motive to maintain relationships, feel social connectedness: homeostatic balance of social/alone time. Chronic loneliness correlated with: cancer, strokes, cardiovascular disease, poor sleep, depression, and substance abuse. Effects of social exclusion: cyberball studies. Depressed mood, anxiety, hurt feelings, eventual withdrawal: similar brain activity as physical pain. Need to achieve: motive to strive for, and achieve goals. Individual difference: low need to achieve: choose very easy tasks (guaranteed success) or very difficult tasks (failure expected, not embarrassing, high need to achieve: choose moderately difficult tasks (achievable, but challenging) Need to achieve & life outcomes: goleman (1980): 1528 california kids -> top 1% in iq. 40 years later: achievement motive best predictor of success: duckworth & seligman (2005) Achievement motive = better predictor of school performance, attendance, graduation honors that iq test scores: need to consider domain. Includes: physiological reaction, expressive behaviors, conscious experience (thoughts and feelings) Types of emotion: paul ekman: universal emotional expressions (even in blind people!)