Ch. 11 Emotion & Motivation for Psychology Final

obese people are motivated to eat more by external cues than internal ones. Such as the time of day rather than if they are actually hungry

values that establish a range of body and muscle mass that we tend to maintain

hormone that signals the hypothalamus and brain stem to reduce appetite and increase the amount of energy used.

when blood glucos levels drop, hunger creates a drive to eat in order to restore the proper level of glucose

must satisfy psychological needs or needs for safty before we can progress to more complex needs.

only motivated by positive goals

performance increases with psychlogical or mental arousal, but only up to a point; when levels become too high performance actually decreases.

drives (hunger, thirst, sex) motivate us to act in ways to minimize aversive status and maintain homeostasis (equilibrium)

questionnaires that assess workers tendency to steal/cheat.

premise that criminals conceal knowledge about the crime that innocent people do not.

changes in psychological states supposedly associated with lying

High false positives

perfect physiological or behavioral indicator of lying

study of personal space

• Public speaking: 12ft
• Social Distance: 4-12 ft
• Personal Distance: 1.5-4ft
• Intimate Distance: 0-1.5 ft

gestures with cultural meaning

one body part touching another.

Bitting lip...

Highlight or accentuate speech (Victoria talking with hands)

unconscience spillover of emotion into nonverbal behaviors

• Gestures
• Illustrators
• Manipulators
• Emblems

blood vessels in face feedback temperature info to the brain which alters our emotions

Eg. smiling makes you more happy

repeated exposure to a stimulus makes us more likely to feel favorable about it

DIET COKE- advertising

deep seated similarities in communication across most animal species

• High Pitch: friendly
• Low Pitch: hostile

cross cultural guidelines for how or when to express emotions

• only have small number of emotions
• adaptave value
• Development of emotions
• culture and emotions: similar emotions across cultures