Current Internal States Affecting a Person’s Behaviour and Conscious Experience

Subject Outline

AMotivational states: needs and desires that channel a person's behaviour and experience
- 1Diverse theories of motivation: psychoanalytic, drive, arousal, incentive, and hedonic theories
- 2Specific human needs and motives, with special attention to achievement, anxiety, aggression, and sexual behaviour and deviations
- 3Situational and interactional factors: stresses in stimulus field, cognitive evaluation, balance and congruity, and cognitive dissonance
- 4Recent developments and practical applications of motivation theory: emphasis on reinforcement and instinct, the use of token systems
BEmotional states: bodily conditions and feelings accompanying motivation and arousal conditions
- 1The nature of emotion
- 2Diverse conceptions of emotion: the roles of the nervous system
- 3Expression of emotions: the startle response; facial, vocal, and postural manifestations
CTransient states affecting behaviour and experience
- 1Sleep
- 2Dreams
- 3Hypnosis and related states of altered consciousness
- 4Fatigue