Motivation and
Emotion
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Pituitary Gland: the “Master Gland” –controls
all other glands and ,
as well as producing the growth hormone
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Adrenal Gland: gland that secretes ,
which in turn increases heart rate, perspiration, breathing, etc.
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What are some situations that could result in
the adrenal gland being activated?
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What could happen if a person’s pituitary gland
was not functioning properly?
Take a moment to
answer the following questions. Use page 127 of your textbook. We will go over
the answers.
- What
are gonads?
- Explain
the function of ovaries and testes.
- Explain
the difference between androgen and estrogen.
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Food should never be used as a
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As children, food intake must be monitored
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If not, food can take on an abnormal and
dominant control of a person’s life, even up through adulthood.
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Fat cells are stored up for our body to use in
case of
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Our bodies are 70% water
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Unlike fat cells, there are extra water cells
Thirst
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Why do we feel thirsty?
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There are units in our body that keep track of
the number of water cells surrounding the . When that number gets low,
the desire for water increases.
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What is a food that makes you thirsty?
Motives
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motive: a drive that moves a person a seek new
and different things
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motive: a drive that moves a person to handle
and use objects in the environment.
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Why do higher functioning animals and humans
have these motives?
As a class, we will
read aloud “The Need for Stimulation” and answer the following questions
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1. What is contact comfort?
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2. Why is contact comfort physiologically
necessary?
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3. What devastating consequences can result from
a lack of contact comfort?
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4. What did Harry Harlow’s monkey study show?
Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
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Using your smart phones or your book (pages
140-141) identify the following “learned” psychological needs.
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Need for
Affiliation:
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Need for Approval:
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Need for Achievement:
Emotion
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A natural instinctive of
mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
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Take a moment to answer these questions:
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How can you recognize an emotion?
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Can you think of a condition where a person
might not be able to recognize the moods of other people, or even within
themselves?
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Humans express themselves in and ways
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Think of examples where people use symbols to
show their emotions, in a positive or
negative way
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People throughout the world share basic
emotions, such as ,
despair, fear, and
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Basic facial gestures also remain
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Cultural facial expressions of happiness,
sadness, anger, and disgust tend to remain universal
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However, and can be difficult to distinguish among
different cultures
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Cognition: higher order processes such as reasoning and problem
solving
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Cognition and emotion go hand in hand
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Can you think of how cognition will play a role
in your emotional responses?
Opponent Process Theory
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The presence of one emotion triggers the
opposite, which eventually emerges
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Can you think of any examples?
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Situational cues: clues in to determine how we should react
Emotional Intelligence
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The ability to properly deal fee, deal with, and
recognize emotions
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Take a few minutes and list the three parts of
emotional intelligence. Provide an example for each!
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1. Emotional Self-Awareness:
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2. Managing and harnessing emotions:
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3. Empathy:
Use your smart phones or textbooks, page 149-150 to define
these theories
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James-Lange Theory
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Cannon-Bard Theory
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Schachter’s Cognitive Theory
Conflict, Stress,
and Coping
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Frustration: the process by which we are blocked
or from reaching goals
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Conflict: A problem that demands a choice
between
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What are the four types of conflict? List them below and explain what they mean
END OF ASSIGNMENT
Psychological Defense
Mechanisms: Group Work
1.
What are defense mechanisms?
2.
When do we use these defense mechanisms and is
it normal to use them? Do we always know if we are using them?
3.
Complete the table as follows. Explain what each
means and give an example of a situation where it might be used. Use your
textbook (page 478) to explain what each mechanism means. However, you may use
your Smart Device to come up with a situation for each, as well as your
imagination or personal experience (you don’t need to say it a personal
experience!)
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Defense
Mechanism
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Explanation
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Example
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Repression
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Rationalization
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Projection
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Regression
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Denial
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Reaction Formation
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Displacement
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Identification with aggressor
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Suppression
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Sublimation
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Intellectualization
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Which of these is the only healthy defense mechanism?
END OF ASSIGNMENT
Name:
Guided Reading, Ch 5-motivation and emotion
1.
How do symbols affect motivation and emotion?
2.
Explain the difference between motivation and
emotion.
3.
How do different regions of the brain affect
motivation and emotion?
4.
What happens when we are hungry? What happens
when we are full? What part of the brain controls this?
5.
What could happen if a person damaged their
“stop-eating” center? What is your opinion of the ethics involved concerning
the rat on page 125?
6.
What part of the brain is responsible for
aggression and fear? What can happen when this is damaged?
7.
What is the reticular activating system and what
does it do? Think of an event where your RAS would be activated and an event
where it would not be activated.
Name: Date
Stress and Anxiety
Use your textbooks
and smart phones to answer the following questions (starting page 462)
1.
What is anxiety and when does it occur? List
three physical symptoms of anxiety.
2.
What is stress? When does stress arise?
3.
Explain the difference between eustress and
distress. What determines whether a stress is eustress or distress?
4.
What are some physical responses caused by
stress? Identify three situations that may cause stress.
5.
What is the general adaption syndrome? What
three stages make up the general adaption syndrome?
6.
How can stress affect the immune system? How
does being optimistic affect the immune system?
7.
What other impacts on your physical well-being
can stress have?
END OF ASSIGNMENT
