PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thematic Apperception Test, Polygraph, Neocortex

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Achievement motive need to master di cult challenges, to outperform others, and to meet high standards of excellence. Need for achievement (nach) need to excel especially in competition with others. Strength of motivation to achieve success probability of success. Approach-avoidance con ict involve single goal with both attractive and unattractive aspects. Involves a subjective conscious experience accompanied by bodily arousal and by characteristic overt expressions. Ledoux (1996: sensory input, activation of emotions before cognitive processes take place (unconscious, sensory impulses to neocortex for cognitive processing, controls physiological and behavioural components of emotional responses, activation of emotions by cognitive processes. People of di erent cultures and speaking di erent languages categorize the emotions somewhat di erently . Norms that regulate the appropriate expression of emotions. Emotion-arousing stimulus leads to a conscious feeling (fear, anger) and a physiological response. Seeing an angry dog triggers feelings of fear and physical responses such as trembling. An emotion-arousing stimulus in the environment triggers physiological reaction.