PSYC100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Motivation, Social Comparison Theory, Homeostasis

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Agnes R.Ly

Document Summary

Chapter 10: emotion and motivation: negative and positive experiences have guided our species to behaviors that increase the probability of our surviving and reproduction. Emotions are hard to define; they are some kind of positive, negative, or neutral reaction to an experience with physiological responses that come and go with those experiences. Affect-as-information theory states that people use current moods to make judgements and appraisals even if they"re unaware of the mood"s source. If a person is made aware of the source of their moods, their feelings have less influence over their judgements: video 1: decision making. Emotions let you mark things as good, bad or indifferent; we are swayed by emotions when making decisions. Case study about a person with damage to the prefrontal cortex and because of that could not make decisions; the amygdala could not connect to the prefrontal cortex to help make decisions: video 2: gambling task.