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The Philosophical Implications of Some Theories of EmotionPhilosophy of Science
Vol. 6, No. 4 [Oct., 1939]
, pp. 458-486 [29 pages]
Published By: The University of Chicago Press
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PSY 1303 - EXAM 3 REVIEW
Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion.
Motivation is to reduce drives. The force that moves people to behave, think and feel the way they do.
Drive: Aroused state that occurs due to physiological need.
Need: Deprivation that energizes drive to reduce or eliminate that deprivation.
Homeostasis: Body’s tendency to maintain equilibrium.
Incentive: Determined by rewards and punishments for engaging in behavior.
Sexual orientation: The direction of an individual’s erotic interests, today viewed as a continuum from
exclusive male-female relations to exclusive same-sex relations.
The mystery of sexual orientation:
Heterosexual – Bisexual – Homosexual: Flexibility.
Theories explaining homosexuality:
Freud.
Behaviorists.
Biological.
Interactionist.
The element of emotional experience:
Cognitive component – evaluative: Subjective conscious experience.
Physiological component: autonomic arousal [nervous system].
Behavioral component: Expressed through our face.
Facial expressions of emotion are not always visually apparent.
James-Lange theory: The theory that emotion results from physiological states triggered by stimuli in
the environment.
Stimulus Physiological reaction Emotion.
Each emotion has distinct set of physiological changes.
Stimulus [Beat] Perception [Danger] Arousal [Pounding heart] Subjective experience [Fear].
Cannon-Bard theory: The proposition that emotion and physiological reactions occur simultaneously.
Stimulus Physiological reaction and emotion.