Zusammenfassung der Ressource
MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
- a valenced response to an external/internal stimulus
- Basic vs Emotional schemas
- Innate/evolutionary,
automatic process, universal.
Fear, anger, sadness, joy,
surprise, disgust
- learned, developed, more complex.
shame, jealousy
- Energization of behaviour that gives direction
(approach and avoidance) initiates, maintains, directs
and finalizes an action
- Types of motivation
- Homeostasis: basic motivation to reach a stable physiological state, given a set point,
- settling point: equilibrium between opposite forces, affected by external
elements (hunger vs satiety depending on availability of resources)
- extrinsic: external, linked
to reward and punishment
. leads to negative affect
and undermines
performance.
- intrinsic: internal, personal
gain, needs, goal . leads to
positive affect and greater
performance
- Over-justification effect:
reduction of intrinsic motivation by
extrinsic reward
- NEEDS: satisfaction of a need is necessary
for an organism to live a healthy life.
- psychological needs
- Deci & Ryan, Self-detemrination theory. basic needs:
competence, autonomy, relatedness, people want to feel
affective in their activities so they feel they are self chosen
and to feel closeness to others.
- Epstein.basic needs: self esteem,
relatedness (affection) and self
consistency (safety) and pleasure
- American Dream: happinesss results when
individuals acquire popularity, influence and
money luxuries.
- Swann: need
self enhancement
and self
consistency.
- Terror Management theory: individuals have desire
to live. we are aware of our own death, therefore 2
defence mechanims: self-esteem, safety. less
important: self-expansive.
- psychological and
physiological
- MASLOW:
- CRITICISMS, developmental
stages of affection.
self-actualisation isnt
functional under an
evolutionary POV.
developmental priorities may
not be related to current
priorities
- OTHER TYPES
- KENRIK, pyramid with evolutionary
functions at top (mate acquisition,
parenting, mate retention)
- Sheldon: converged theories. four fundamental are enhancement
needs. competence, autonomy, belongingness and self-esteem.
siggetsed 10 needs however other 6 changed across cultures
- MASLOW
- DRIVES: acts of
motivation that have
primarily biological
purposes
- LINK : emotional schema can be
temperamental or motivational.
emotion modulates motivation to
reach a goal.
- NEURAL CORRELATES
- APPROACHES TO
EMOTIONAL BRAIN
- LIMBIC SYSTEM
THEORY. (MacLean). 1
system for all emotions,
- BASIC EMOTION THEORY. 6 basic
emotions, each emotion has a different
system.
- LEDOUX: one emotion processed at
a time. how brain learns about,
detects and responds to events/stimuli
- low road directly from thalamus to amygdala -> triggers/primes automatic responses.
high road: thalamus -> sensory cortex (for analysis) -> amygdala (slower process)
- AMYGDALA: to give
valence/relative value to a sensory
input, mediates avoidance/approach.
- CENTRAL (innate responses, outputs)
- output to orbital & medial
prefrontal cortex. leads to
conscious experience of
reward, planning to obtain
reward and avoid punishment
- hypothalamus & brain
stem: autonomic,
endocrine and
behavoural responses
- LATERAL (inputs)
- TRIGGER CELLS & STORAGE CELLS:
associative learning and unconscious
emotional memory (vs hippocampal conscious memory of emotion)
- FEAR & REWARD
- DOPAMINE:
- Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA - regulates) ->
prefrontal & insular cortex/nucleus
accumbens & limbic structures
- REWARD PREDICTION ERROR (Schultz):
dopamine signal = actual reward - expected
reward. +ve = activation, -ve = depression, 0 =
no response
- increases effect of
positive/negative motivators
- NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS
(linked to reward, addiction
and emotional stimuli)
- dopamine release occurs in
anticipation of reward, so is
motivational
- INPUTS: prefrontal
association cortex,
amygdala,
dopaminergic cells of
VTA
- OUTPUTS:
basal ganglia->
thalamus ->
prefrontal cortex.
this leads to
awareness.
- IMPULSIVITY: Acting suddenly, and
without plan to satisfy immediate
desire. Inability to inhibit inappropriate
actions and insensitivity to
consequences. (Moallem &
Papachristou)
- Sensitivity to Reward: predisposition to
detect and pursue rewarding stimuli
- Nucleus Accumbens: high activity
shows more sensitivity to rewards ->
more impulsive
- Demos: heightened activity to appetitive cues can predict future
behaviors. eg. higher activity to a beer bottle stimulus predicts future
alcohol intake
- Delay reward discounting: focus on ST
reward compared to LT greater reward.
Measured with IOWA gambling task
- Somatic Marker hypothesis: people have somatic markers that regulate
decision making, more impulsive -> markers unable to be read and therefore
not used as well -> worse decisions
- Risky decision making.
Balloon Analog Risk
Task
- Neural circuits
- +ve correlations to
impulsivity
- ventral
amygdala
- -ve
correlations to
impulsivity
- dorsal
amygdala.
- Behaviorual Activation System: regulates appetitive and reward seeking behaviour, increases motor output.
Behavioural Inhibition System: passive avoidance of punishment and non-reward, decreases motor output
- Response Inhibition: ability to
inhibit thoughts or behaviour.
measured with Go-nogo tasks
(stop-signal task)
- poor response
inhibition, -> risk factor as makes
more vulnerable to contextual
cues -> more impulsivity.
- Neural Circuits
- +ve
correlation to
impulsivity
- Bilateral Caudale
- Dorsal anterior
cingulate
gyrus.
- -ve
correlation to
impulsivity
- vPFC
- Measurement as a
personality trait: Barratt
Impulsiveness Scale