1. Needs
Energize behavior
Well-being
Direct behavior
Change
How well
Emotions Indicate adaptation level
Novelty
How poorly
Uncertainty
Physical
Life events that direct our attention Adaptation to changing environment
Complexity
involve our Social
Puzzles Stimulate brain activity
Activate emotion
Challenge
Two Synchronous systems Regulate emotion
Curiosity Relationship between
Highly adaptive system
Learning Emotion and Motivation
Discovering
Innate
Achieving
Spontaneous
Biology
Innate
Two-System View Cause of Emotion Reacts involuntarily to emotional stimuli
Physiological System
For all people
Came first Limbic system
Arise from the same circumstances
Personal loss sad for everyone
Experience based
Basic emotions
Uniquely expressed
Interpretively
Cognition Reacts
Distinctive
Socially
Evoke
Highly predictable physiological
Came later Neocortex
patterned responses