Emotion and Motivation by Brian Parkinson

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Emotion and Motivation by Brian Parkinson

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Part of Longman Essential Psychology Series series

Summary

One of the most widely accepted ways of classifying human mental functions defines three separate areas of cognition, affect and conation. Emotion is one of the most important and thoroughly explored forms of affect and motivation is essentially just a new name for conation.

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Emotion and Motivation by Brian Parkinson

Emotion and Motivation focuses on those areas of Psychology which deal with the transient mental feelings we call emotions and the psychological processes that initiate, energise and direct behaviour known as motivation. It covers topics such as: the definition of emotion and its main components; research into the theory of emotion; emotion and cognition; hunger and appetite; social motivation and social facilitation; sexual motivation, behaviour and its function; major theories of stress and the psychological effects of the three main stress-inducing type of experience.

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ISBN 13 9780582278080
ISBN 10 0582278082
Title Emotion and Motivation
Author Brian Parkinson
Series Longman Essential Psychology Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pearson Education Limited
Year published 1995-06-01
Number of pages 128
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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