Chapter 11: Emotions and Motivations
Learning Objectives
- Explain the biological experience of emotion.
- Summarize the psychological theories of emotion.
- Give examples of the ways that emotion is communicated.
- Define stress and review the body’s physiological responses to it.
- Summarize the negative health consequences of prolonged stress.
- Explain the differences in how people respond to stress.
- Review the methods that are successful in coping with stress.
- Understand the important role of positive emotions and happiness in responding to stress.
- Understand the factors that increase, and do not increase, happiness.
- Understand the biological and social responses that underlie eating behaviour.
- Understand the psychological and physiological responses that underlie sexual behaviour.
