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Motivation & Emotion
Motivation & Emotion
Motivation & Emotion
Emotion
Fahria Karim
Lecturer
NSU
Suppose you are locked in a room
with handcuff in your left hand. No
help is coming. There is no food. You
can see the keys of the room door at
the other end of the big room. You
know, the only way to escape is to
break your wrist bones and uncuff
yourself.
Motivation
• Instinct approaches: The explanation of
motivation that suggests people and
animals are born preprogrammed with
sets of behaviors essential to their survival
Experiences • Example?
• What would it be like if we didn’t
experience emotion?
Cont.
Cont.
• Consider the experience of fear. What
happens? (Example)
Lange
Theory James-Lange suggested that for every
emotion there is an accompanying
physiological or ‘gut’ reaction of internal
organs called- Visceral experience
Think-Pair-
Share
What can be the possible drawbacks of
the James-Lange theory?
Attendance
• The belief that both physiological
arousal and emotional experience are
produced simultaneously by the same
nerve stimulus