Motivation

EMOTIONS
2 TYPES OF AFFECTION
EMOTION
Strong emotional reactions, immediate, low duracuón
Clara organ involvement
Relatively standardized behavioral response.
FEELING
Affective reactions diffuse, softer and durable.
Organic and mild behavioral reaction.
DIMENSIONS OF EMOTIONS
TONE:
- How to live the emotion (positive-negative, pleasant-unpleasant)
INTENSITY:
Degree of physiological arousal (blushing, trembling)
Personal experience (feeling strong emotion)
Later behavior (more or less strong reaction)
DURATION:
Short / long-lasting
Biological or mental issue?
Zajonc: the emotions are biological processes, before or after cognition but clearly different from these.
LAZARUS-ELLIS-BECK: emotion is post-cognitive. The way a person interprets the situation will be critical to triggers an emotion or another.
LeDoux brain mechanisms generate emotional behavior.
Many and what are they?
BIOLOGICAL POSITION: emotions are a system that serves to survival, so there is a finite number.
Plutchik: fear, sadness, anger, joy, disgust, acceptance, anticipation and surprise.
Ekman: fear, anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise and contempt.
COGNITIVE POSITION: there are basic emotions, programmed and standardized, but each person variacionesen are endless, as interpreted by the specific situation, cultural and socio-historical factors.
TRIAD OF EMOTIONAL RESPONSE
The emotional response is 3 points

Physiological components: response or physiological change (change in heart rate, dilation of blood vessels, etc.).
Subjective component: the same mood that the same person named as emotion.
Behavioral components: expressive emotional behavior, social function of emotions (facial expression, posture, movements, vocalizations).
FUNCTIONS OF EMOTIONS
ROLES OF ADAPTATION
Emotions help the body adapt to changing and complex environment (Darwin).
Ex: fear protects you from harmful situations, the disgust for rejecting spoiled food, etc..
Neither good nor bad: it protects the same emotion may hinder adaptation.
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
They are useful as signal: to communicate emotional states to others. Eg, the baby communicates its needs to the mother.
Used to modify the behavior of others, to regulate it. Eg, expression of rebuff, minimizes the approach of others.
ROLE OF MOTIVATION
Emotions can become motivators for action.
The body tends to seek experience pleasant emotions or pleasant and avoid unpleasant emotions.
THEORETICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONCEPT OF EMOTION
Evolutionists CONTRIBUTIONS
Darwin: the emotions have a positive value and adaptive functioning as preparatory signals for action and as effective communication between individuals. Principle of utility.
Lorenz: investigations of the differences between innate and acquired behavior in animals and humans.
Plutchik: primitive emotions are adaptive reactions, fixed in our genetic code.
BEHAVIORAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Watson: There are three innate unconditioned emotional responses to specific stimuli associated
Fear aversive situations
Ira situations that prevent movement
Love erogenous zone stimulation
Skinner: E as learned behaviors. The emotional response is associated with a reinforcer contingent on emotional behavior expressed.
COGNITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS
To produce an emotional response is needed in the body physiological arousal and cognitive interpretation of that activation.
The cognitive interpretation gives quality to the emotional state.
The emotional experience occurs after the physiological event: our brain receives signals that our heart is racing, your muscles are shaking and breathing stutters. Interprets this as fear and experience the excitement
CONTRIBUTIONS PSYCHODYNAMIC
Energy conception of emotions: the libidinal system generate unpleasant psychological tension as discharged through dreams, symptoms, or cathartic expression of feelings and emotions.
The evaluation of the events would be purely unconscious.
Jung information people process the world through thought or feelings. When feelings are very intense emotions are overt and Physiological different emotions.