Motivation and Emotion

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A field that uses cognitive neuroscience research methods to study emotion and related processes.
Affective neuroscience
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The theory that a stimulus elicits an emotion by triggering a particular response in the brain (in the thalamus) which then causes both the physiological changes associated with the emotion and the emotional experience itself.
Cannon-Bard theory of emotion
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A form of emotion regulation in which an individual changes her emotional response to a situation by altering her interpretation of that situation.
Cognitive reapprasial
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A research method in which one makes systematic comparisons among different species in order to gain insights into the function of a particular structure or behavior, or the evolutionary origins of that structure or behavior.
Comparative method
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Cultural rules that govern the expression of emotion.
Display rules
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The ability to influence one's emotions.
Emotion regulation
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A female sex hormone that dominates the first half of the female cycle through ovulation.
Estrogen
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In mammals, the period in the cycle when the female is sexually receptive (in heat).
Estrus
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The body's tendency to maintain the conditions of its internal environment by various forms of self-regulation
Homeostasis
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The theory that the subjective experience of emotion is the awareness of one's own bodily reactions in the presence of certain arousing stimuli.
James-Lange theory of emotion
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A chemical produced by the adipose cells that seems to signal that plenty of fat is stored and that no more fat is needed. This signal may diminish eating.
Leptin
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A learning orientation characterized by a focus on gaining new knowledge or abilities and improving.
Mastery orientation
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A chemical found widely in the brain and periphery. In the brain, it acts as a neurotransmitter; when administered at sites in and near the hypothalamus, it is a potent elicitor of eating.
neuropeptide Y (NPY)
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A dopamine-rich area in the forebrain that is critical in the physiology of reward.
Nucleus accumbens
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A female sex hormone that dominates the latter phase of the female cycle during which the uterine walls thicken to receive the embryo.
Progesterone
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The theory that emotional experience results from the interpretation of bodily responses in the context of situational cues.
Schatcher-singer theory of emotion
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According to Abraham Maslow and some other adherents of the humanistic approach to personality, the full realization of one's potential.
Self actualization
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A general term for the level at which negative feedback tries to maintain stability.
Set point
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Social support focused on practical or material needs.
Tangible support
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The process by which organisms maintain a constant body temperature.
Thermoregulation
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An organism's motivation to obtain a reward.
Wanting
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The theory that a stimulus elicits an emotion by triggering a particular response in the brain (in the thalamus) which then causes both the physiological changes associated with the emotion and the emotional experience itself.

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Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

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A form of emotion regulation in which an individual changes her emotional response to a situation by altering her interpretation of that situation.

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A research method in which one makes systematic comparisons among different species in order to gain insights into the function of a particular structure or behavior, or the evolutionary origins of that structure or behavior.

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Cultural rules that govern the expression of emotion.

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