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..)
- 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.
- Experience of emotion is awareness of physiological response to emotion arousing stimuli.
- Sight of oncoming car- perception of stimulus
- Pounding heart (arousal)
- Fear (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.
- Emotion- arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger:
- PhysiologicaL responses
- Subjective experience of emotion
- To experience emotion one must be physically aroused & cognitive label the arousal.
- 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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