PSYC 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Blood Pressure, Electrodermal Activity, Motivation
23 Mar 2018
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Innate patterns of behavior, assumed to be universal. Drive- psychological state of arousal due to need. Once you understand how a person is motivated then you can assume their behavior. Basic needs must be met before higher needs can be satisfied. Motivation to develop our fullest potential: competence, able to bring about desired outcomes, relatedness, warm relations with others, need to belong, autonomy, independence and self-reliance. A feeling, or affect, that can involve physiological arousal, conscious experience, and. Emotion is simply the perception of physiological arousal. If faced with stimuli, you will have arousal and your feeling is your perception of. Limitations: same reaction can come from different stimuli. Stimuli causes a direct central experience of both arousal and feeling. Limitations: see emotion as primitive and instinctual, at odds with logic and reasoning. Interpret physiological arousal in light of external cues/context cognitive attribution-> label emotion. Arousal from one experience carries over to a separate situation.
