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Emotions, Motivation and decision-making - Coggle Diagram
Emotions, Motivation and decision-making
Motivated behaviour aims to achieve a goal associated with an affect (the combined experience of emotion and mood)
Experience of emotions are manifested in bodily responses as well as in cognition; it is unlikely that a single underlying mechanism mediates all emotional response/emotions.
No agreed definition of emotion, more of an umbrella term for a range of mechanisms
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Basic emotion shared across cultures and animals (fear, happy)
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Decision: process of choosing between at least two options where there is some uncertainty about the outcome
Decisions are involved in motivated behaviour (what is the desired goal and what is the best course f action to achieve it), with emotion influencing the decisions.
Emotions are integrated into decision motivated behaviour are the amygdala, insula, ventral middle prefrontal cortex, orbital frontal cortex and ventral striatum.
3 stages: pre-decision, the decision, post-decision
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