Tuesday, March 4, 2014

February 28, 2014 

Achievement Motivation 
  • Intrinsic Motivators: rewards we get internally, such as enjoyment or satisfaction. 
  • Extrinsic Motivators: Reward that we get for accomplishments from outside ourselves (grades or money or etc..) 
Management Theory 
  • Theory X: managers believes that employees will work only if rewarded w/ benefits or threatened w/ punishment. Think employees are extrinsic ally motivated. Only interested in Maslow's lower needs.
  • Theory Y: Managers believe that employees are internally motivated to do good work and policies should encourage this internal motive. Interesting in Maslow's higher needs.
James-Lange Theory of Emotion 
  • Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological response to emotion arousing stimuli.  
  • Sight of oncoming car- perception of stimulus 
  • Pounding heart (arousal) 
  • Fear (emotion) 
Emotion 
  • William James and Carl Lange came up with the James- Langd Theory of Emotion. 
  • We feel emotion because of biological changes caused  by stress. 
  • The body changes and our mind recognize the feeling. 
Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion 
  • Emotion- arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger: 
  • PhysiologicaL responses 
  • Subjective experience of emotion 
Schachter's Two-Factor Theory of Emotion: 
  • To experience emotion one must be physically aroused & cognitive label the arousal. 
Emotion- Lie Detectors 
  • Polygraph- machine commonly used in attempts to detect lies. Measures several of the physiological responses accompanying emotion: perspiration, cardiovascular, breathing changes. 

Experienced Emotion 
Catharsis: emotional release & catharsis hypothesis 
  • "Releasing" aggressive energy (through action of fantasy) relieves aggressive urges. 
  • Feel-good, do-good phenomenon 
  • People's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood. 
  • Adaptation-Level Phenomenon: tendency to form judgements relative to a "neutral" level (prior knowledge of judgement) - brightness of lights, volume of sound, level of income. Defined by our prior experience. 
  • Relative Deprivation: perception that one is worse off relative to those w/ whom one compares oneself. 

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