PSY 102 Week 5 DQ 1
What is the relationship between motivation and emotion? Provide an example of how emotions can motivate you to act in a certain way. Provide another example that illustrates how achieving something you were motivated to do (or not achieving it) provoked a particular emotion....
What is the relationship between motivation and emotion? Provide an example of how emotions
can motivate you to act in a certain way. Provide another example that illustrates how achieving
something you were motivated to do (or not achieving it) provoked a particular emotion.
Motivation and emotions are closely related concepts because motives and the arousal of
emotion activate behavior. Motives are often accompanied by emotions and emotions more often
than not have motivational properties of their own. For example, anyone who has ever had a
goal (like wanting to lose 20 pounds or run a marathon) probably immediately realizes that
simply having the desire to accomplish something is not enough. Achieving such a goal requires
the ability to persist through obstacles and endurance to keep going in spite of difficulties.
One positive emotion related to me and being a student would be joy and a negative one would
be anger. I would experience joy from receiving a good grade and positive feedback from my
instructor which can be very motivational. This would increase my craving to do better and
continue on the same road and make my next assignment better than the first. I could also
experience anger for one of two reasons. I could be unhappy with the feedback I received from
my instructor. Sometimes I may not always agree with the grade that has been given to me. We
may not always see eye to eye, especially when I know I put my best foot forward. Another
factor of anger could be personal issues that could affect my work; I may not do an assignment
or just turn in very poor work.
This Motivation and Emotion PowerPoint helps in understanding emotional experiences.
Emotions, feelings that generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and that
influence behavior. Conveniently, as the PowerPoint points out, there are five main emotions;
love, joy, anger, sadness and fear generally have both physiological and cognitive elements and
that influence behavior. It is drive reduction that help overcome the challenges associated with
the emotions mentioned above. Since drive is a desire that is felt strong enough to motivate a
person to seek satisfaction, I would feel the need to overcome the emotion of, say for instance,
anger. Drive would also aid me in seeking joy as well. Having that drive will make me perform
at my best.
Hi Victoria
Great post. I like when you say, “You have intrinsic motivation to finish school because of the
goals I set and intrinsic motivation because I will be proud of myself for doing so.” Pride is a
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