Emotions & Motivationfear, sadness, anxiety, anger, joy,happiness, interest, hunger, thirs, needs,

Maslov, Yerkes-Dodson, sympaticus-parasympaticus

Jakub Jura

Jakub.jura@fs.cvut.cz

http://users.fs.cvut.cz/~jurajaku/ing-psych/

Engineering Psychology

What is emotions?

• Latin E + MOVERE • Something which moveing out by ourselves• Feeling of the mind as distinct from the

cognitive.• Grow from a temperament.

Basic directions

• Aproach• Avoid

• Pleasing, hedoné• Unpleasant, Unhedoné

• Tasty • Untasty

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Arousal

• Affect• Alertness• Vigilance• Sleepeness• Relaxation• Sleep• Death

• Arousal is a physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli.

• How to monitor AROUSAL?• EEG activities, Micro-motion (e.g. In stearing wheel)

Basic emotions

Hedone UnhedoneHedonic continuum

Arousal

Physiological indicators of emotions

• Blood pressure• Pulse• Skin color• Respire rate (breathing in / out)• Pupil size

Sympaticus / parasympaticus• ENS (Enteric Nervous System)• Preparing organism to action or relaxation, fight or digestion.

Innervated Organ sympat para-s

Heart frequency + -

Vessel constriction dilatation

Gastro-intestinal motility - +

Pupil - +

Liver … gluko - …synthesa …lysa

Salivation - +

PolygraphLie detector test

• Respiration• Galvanic Skin Response• Puls Rate

• Fistful of rici – … if spit out it dry, then …

… SALIVATION +/-

ARAS – ascendent reticular actiovating system

RF

Cortex

Sensors

Motoric systems

Visceral system Clock

Self-holding interconnection

Motivation … is vector

• Direction• Strenght

Motivation to …

Pleasure center

Homeostatic theory of motivativationCybernetics model

FeelingHungry

Action:Motivated behaviour

CCK

motivation

SetpointHypothalamus

Sensors:glucose

temperaturestomach motilitystomach fullness

Satisfaction

Example:

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Physiological needs

Safety needs

Love and belongingness

Self-esteem and social-esteem

Self-actualization

requirements for human survival: air, water, food, sex …

personal security, safety place, health,

friendship, Intimacy, family

need to be respected, be accepted and valued by others, feel self-value

What a man can be, he must be.Inductive

Reductive

Yerkes-Dodson lawPe

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Arousal (stimulation)Low                                                        High

Performance maximum

Arousal optimum

Simple task →

← Difficult task

Motivation and Emotions

Threat Fear

Loos Sadness

Obstacle Anger

Profit Joy

Uncertainty Anxiety