PSYC13H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: No Idea Records
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Learning goal #1: you should be able to describe the theoretical difference between hedonic and instrumental motives for regulating positive/negative emotions. Hedonic: individuals may be motivated to increase pleasant emotions. Instrumental: individuals may be motivated to increase unpleasant emotions. Hypothesis: we believed that such a preference would be drive by instrumental considerations and anger will improve performance in a confrontational, but not a nonconfrontational task. Learning goal #3: you should be able to describe the basic study design, and how it tested the questions/hypotheses generated by an instrumental theory of emotion regulation. Participants were told that before playing a computer game, they would engage in another activity. They were then given descriptions of games that differed in their confrontational nature. After reading each description, participants were given examples of activities they could perform before playing the game and rated the extent to which they would prefer to engage in each activity.
