Remebering, Feeling, and Thinking Worksheet

Remembering, Feeling, and Thinking Worksheet

Introduction to Psychology/103

October 15, 2011

Part I: Motivation, Emotion, and Behavior

1. Explain the relationships between motivation, emotion, and behavior. How does emotion affect motivation? Give an example of a specific behavior and the motivators and emotions that can be behind that behavior. Your response should be at least 300 hundred words.

Answer: Motivation, emotion, and behavior are similar in many ways but also different in some ways depending on the individual, for personal gratification and the levels for personal achievement. When you’re highly motivated (wanting to achieve more) you feel and a sense of happiness, or excitement, which makes us behave in a certain way, according to how we feel emotionally, and how motivated we are. Emotion affects motivation because if you’re mood or sad, unhappy, you’re not going to be motivated or anxious to complete a task, it will slightly bring down your motivation levels. Say for example when a middle school student cries and get angry for getting a C instead of an A on a test. The thing that would motivate that student to display that emotion is sadness, or personal failure. Seeing that grade (visual) de-motivated that person and made him behave in an angry way, when that student has always made A’s before. Maybe that student had a high sense of achievement and receiving a C on the test, did not meet his/her personal satisfaction.

Part II: Theories of Emotion

2. Summarize the four major theories of emotion. Identify which theory of emotion you think is the most valid. What makes this theory more valid to you than the others? Identify which theory of emotion you think is least valid. What makes this theory less valid? Your response should be at least 300 hundred words.

Answer: The four major theories of emotions are the following: James Lange Theory, Cannon- Bard Theory, Facial-Feedback Hypothesis, Schachters- Two-Factor theory. The...