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Motivation and emotion - Definitions
These definitions of motivation and emotion were developed by participants in Motivation and Emotion (2010-2011, 2013). Feel free to add your definitions:
Motivation
- Motivation is a process towards a goal; it provides an individual with energy and direction.
- Motivation is internal or external drive to achieve something.
- A force that drives behaviour and gives it direction towards satisfying a need or desire.
- Process that drive behaviour.
- Energy or drive that results in behaviour.
- The reason as to why you do or don't engage in a particular behaviour, taking energy and directing it towards a goal.
- An energy that drives somone towards or away from something, conscious or unconscious, to return the body to a state of homeostasis (equilibrium).
- The psychological and/or physiological impulses which provide a desire/cause to behave and think; drive to do something.
- The urge to act with purposeful intent.
- The internal drive to achieve a goal.
- Inclinations towards or away from specific behaviours.
- An internal force that directs an organism to a particular internal or external behaviour and the intensity of application to that end.
- A need or a want that drives a behaviour towards an internal or external goal.
- An innate tendency towards a certain behaviour provoked by an internal or external stimuli.
- Internal or external drives that energises an individual's behaviour.
- The drive to do something.
- A desire or willingness to do something.
- Internal or external reasons for doing something or not doing something.
- A directed energy to do something that can vary in strengths and priority - something you want, need, or desire and it can be internal or external.
- A need, cognition, function or emotion that drives organisms to engage and continue with and terminate behaviour.
- An internal or external driving force behind a person's actions and behaviour.
- A drive which can be internal or external which compels us to perform certain behaviours which includes energy and direction.
- The driving force behind any behaviour.
- The drive for energy and direction utilised in setting a goal or goal-setting behaviour.
- The drive and energy that urges/pushes an individual towards a particular goal through behaviour.
- Gives energy to direct behaviour.
- Processes that give behaviour direction and energy.
- Energy and direction to behave in a goal-directed way.
- Energy to direct or focus on a task, eliciting a behaviour.
- Our internal individual drive that influences our behaviour, needs and desire to set goals.
- An internal drive which directs action.
- Internal drive or knowledge that pushes an individual to perform an action.
Emotion
- Internal state influencing the way we feel at any given moment.
- A feeling that affects the overall mood of an individual both physically and mentally.
- The expression of a feeling or state of mind.
- A chemical reaction we experience in a physiological and psychological way.
- Internal voice that can influence motivation and behaviour.
- A temporary internal state or reaction to an event.
- A physiological state of being.
- The psychological state.
- Something that follows our thoughts and guides our moods and behaviour.
- Internal sensation or state of mind.
- Temporary feeling-based responses to ongoing events.
- A strong feeling or sensation based on internal or external forces.
- A rational or irrational feeling that manifests from thoughts and cognitions and fluctates throughout the day in intensity.
- An internal combination of physiological and cognitive states in response to a thought or an event.
- An individual's response to internal or external stimulu that maybe temporary or subjective and can influence our physiological state or behaviour.
- How you feel about a situation or event.
- The state of mind drawing upon circumstances, experiences etc.
- Passing sense of affect in response to an internal or external circumstance or state.
- A state of mind, thoughts affecting feelings, extrinsic forces in varying strengths and physiological reactions.
- A short-term, subjective-physiological-functional-expressive phenomenon.
- A concept to describe a physiological state at any given point in time.
- A psychological state of mind.
- A state of mind which is determined by thoughts and feelings.
- A fuzzy construct that its difficult to pin down, subjective in nature, can be a physiological state and psychological moment.
- The feelings an individual experiences in response to cognitions, thoughts, physiological influences and external stimuli.
- Feelings that affect a person's behaviour; emotions are intense and short.
- Cognitive thoughts and feelings that are descriptive in nature.
- Psychological and physiological state that influences thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
- The chemical reactions within our bodies that are reflected through our behaviours and feelings.
- A personal disposition towards, and subjective interpretation of past, present and future life events.
- A short-lived psychological state and expression of internal feelings.
- Feelings, energy, unconscious reactions to internal and external stimuli.
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