Week 12: Emotion and Motivation

1.Discuss how instinct, drive, and incentive have been used to explain motivated behaviors.

2.Explain how the concept of balance or equilibrium can be used to explain motivated behaviors.

3.Describe how homeostasis relates to temperature regulation as a physiologically based drive.

4.List the factors that may influence thirst and hunger.

5.Describethe symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and explain the prognosis for each disorder.

6.Discuss the ways in which the sex drive is a unique, physiologically based drive, and explain how the cognitive and affective systems.

7.List four components that define emotional experience.

8.Discuss the different perspectives and controversies surrounding the classification of emotion and the search for basic, or primary, emotions.

9.Describe the activities of the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system during states of emotionality.

10.Describe the various brain centers involved in emotionality.

11.Explain the James-Lange and Cannon-Bard theories on the roots of emotion.

12.Discuss the two factors involved in the two-factor theory of emotion.

13.Define the cognitive appraisal theory of emotion and the content process model.

14.Explain how facial expressions help to convey emotion across cultures

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