Running head: What are emotions? What are Emotions? University of Phoenix Jessika Morgan Emotions are defined as “an affective state of consciousness in which joy‚ sorrow‚ fear‚ hate‚ or the like‚ is experienced‚ as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness (Dictionary.com). Emotions are part of our existence as human beings. They are part of what separates us from others. Emotions can be considered to be universal‚ but everyone’s are different. Imagine a world
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application of motivation and emotion‚ the effectiveness of weight loss programs increase. This prevalence of success is attributable to many theories‚ including the Drive Theory‚ Attribution Theory and Self Efficacy‚ which counteract weight gain and facilitate weight loss. Studies‚ including those conducted by Klesse et al. (2012)‚ indicate this susceptibility and demonstrate their effectiveness. This essay will illustrate the roles of the psychological principles of emotion and motivation in increasing
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Hamilton Acorn presentation on Systems Theory and Human Relations Systems theory within organisations states that businesses retrieve inputs from the external environment‚ transform these inputs from processes and procedures and then out put them back into the environment. Below is a diagram to illustrate this with examples of each. The inputs generally come from other organistaions outputs‚ and the outputs of organisations tend to become inputs for other organisations. Within the
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Theories of Motivation Arousal: * A person’s state of alertness and mental and physical activation. Arousal Theory: * People are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal. * The optimal level is different for all of us. Stimulus Motives: * Motives that cause us to increase stimulation. * Appear to be unlearned‚ * Curiosity‚ exploration‚ and play that occur when your arousal is too low. Yerkes-Dodson Law Yerkes-Dodson Law: * Principle that performance on a
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Material Motivation and Emotion Worksheet Discuss the following as a team and provide a brief summary of the each discussion. The word count for individual answers may vary but your responses should total 500- to 800-words for the entire worksheet. 1. Describe three approaches to motivation. Explain how each approach affects motivation. Three different approaches to motivation are drive reduction‚ incentive‚ and arousal. According to Hockenbury & Hockenbury (2014)‚ “In general‚ drive theories asserted
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Theories of Motivation 1. Instinct Theory The assumption of the theory is that there is an innate biological force causing an organism to act in a certain way. These “forces” are perceived to be automatic‚ involuntary‚ and unlearned behavior patterns or reflexive behaviors that are elicited when certain stimuli are present. 2. Homeostatic Theories The assumptions of the homeostatic theory are that organisms attempt to maintain homeostasis‚ the balance of physiological state or equilibrium
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Alana Burns 1. What is motivation? There are three main types of theories on motivation (biological‚ psychosocial‚ and biopsychosocial theories). Describe each of these theories. Motivation consists of a set of factors that activate‚ direct‚ and maintain behavior and also influence goal-oriented behavior. It also accounts for the variability in people’s behaviors and performance. The first main type of motivation is biological motivation. The first‚ biological motivation is composed of three parts
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Theory of Emotion Name Institutional Affiliation Theories of Emotion One of the most outstanding theories of learning in the field of psychology is the cognitive theory. This theory attempts to explain the behavior of human beings through an evaluation and recognition of their thought process. According to cognitive theorists‚ the thoughts of an individual are the single most crucial determinants of the behaviors and emotions of an individual. Consequently‚ these thoughts are responsible for the
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Differentiate between the 4 major theories on motivation: instincts/evolutionary‚ drive-reduction‚ hierarchy of needs‚ and arousal theory. Discuss their origins‚ and explain why they cannot fully account for human behavior. The instinct/evolutionary theory on motivation states that motivation is the result of biological‚ genetic programming. Thus‚ all beings within a species are programmed for the same motivations. At the heart of this perspective‚ is the motivation to survive - we are biologically
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that we experience as a result of something we have lost or painful emotions we have experienced. | |2 | |E V L O |Possibly the most sought-after human emotions. Feelings of affection to a particular person or animal are most associated with it. | |3 | |S D N E S A S |A feeling where people think is the slightest emotion but the hardest to predict.
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