Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Notes - March 3, 2014

Achievement Motivation - what motivates us to work?

  • Intrinsic Motivation - rewards we get internally, such as enjoyment or satisfaction
  • Extrinsic Motivations - rewards that we get for accomplishments from outside ourselves
Management Theory - management/teaching styles relate closely to intrinsic/extrinsic motivators
  • Theory X - managers believe that employees will work only if rewarded with benefits or threatened with punishment. Think employees are extrinsically 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. Interested in Maslow's higher needs.
Theories of Emotion
  • James-Lange Theory - experience of emotion is awareness of physiological responses to emotion arousing stimuli
    • perception of stimulus - arousal - emotion
    • Emotion - we feel emotion because of biological changes caused by stress. The body changes and our mind recognizes the feeling.
  • Cannon-Bard Theory - emotion arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger: physiological responses, subjective experiences of emotion
    • perception of stimulus - arousal - emotion
  • Schacter's Two Factor Theory 
    • to experience emotion one must:
      • be physically aroused, cognitively label the arousal
    • perception of stimulus - arousal+label - 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 or fantasy, relieving 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 judgments relative to a "neutral" level
    • 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 with whom one compares oneself

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