Chapter 10
Motivation and Emotion
Learning Objectives for Chapter 10:
- Discuss how instinct, drive, and incentive have been used to explain motivated
behaviors.
- Explain how the concept of balance or equilibrium can be used to explain
motivated behaviors.
- Describe how homeostasis relates to temperature regulation as a physiologically
based drive.
- List the factors that may influence thirst and hunger.
- Describe the symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and explain the
prognosis for each disorder.
- Discuss the ways in which the sex drive is a unique, physiologically based
drive, and explain how the cognitive and affective systems operate in the
human sexual motive.
- List the eight dispositional sexual motives.
- Describe individual and mutual sexual behavior.
- Explain the male and female sexual dysfunctions and their causes.
- Discuss achievement motivation, and explain how it is measured.
- Discuss the need for power, affiliation, and intimacy.
- List four components that define emotional experience.
- Discuss the different perspectives and controversies surrounding the
classification of emotion and the search for basic, or primary, emotions.
- Describe the activities of the sympathetic division of the autonomic
nervous system during states of emotionality.
- Describe the various brain centers involved in emotionality.
- Explain the James-Lange and Cannon-Bard theories on the roots of emotion.
- Discuss the two factors involved in the two-factor theory of emotion.
- Define the cognitive appraisal theory of emotion and the content process
model.
- Explain how facial expressions help to convey emotion across cultures.
- Discuss the frustration-aggression hypothesis and list the three factors
that influence the amount of frustration experienced.