MOTIVATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE THEORIES Define the major motivational and emotional response theories that influence behavior. "Emotion is a feeling state involving physiological arousal‚ a cognitive appraisal of situation arousing the state‚ and an outward expression of the state. The James-Lange Theory "James claimed that first an event causes physiological arousal and a physical response. Only then does the individual perceive or interpret the physical response as an emotion. In other
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Criminal Acts and Choice Theories Response CJS/200 Choice theories apply different aspects that pertain to actions of criminal activity under study. The main goal of choice theory is to regulate actions of criminals that would explain why they do what they do. These theories generate factual information based on a persons inherent tendencies‚ background‚ social standing‚ Psychological temperament‚ and environmental influence. There are multiple factors that promote criminal activity. It is
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Reading Responses Face-Negotiation Theory Face-Negotiation theory was developed by Stella Ting-Toomey in 1985. It is a theory that explains why members of two different cultures manage conflict differently. Ting-Toomey asserts that different cultural values exist in dealing with conflict‚ and these conflictual episodes‚ in turn‚ are influenced by the face concerns and face needs of communicators. The differences in cultures‚ distinguishing between individualistic and collectivistic orientations
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Music’s potential as a positive stimulus for the brain Music’s potential as a positive stimulus for the brain Word Count: 1190 Ioannis Karavassilis
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Synopsis Feeling dissatisfied from the traditional approaches‚ I found shelter in Reader Response theory‚ which acknowledged not only my role as a reader in giving meaning to the text but also considered me a scholar who had the right and duty to stand in judgement on the text. In the first chapter the rise of English is traced‚ in order to approach the methods in the teaching of English which were employed when English was established as an academic subject in the universities of England‚ which
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form of the literary work creates the meaning that readers desperately seek. However‚ there is another school of literary theory that would argue against the Formalist thought; the school of reader-response theory. Reader-response theory is where theorists believe that “a reader actively” participates “in the production of textual meaning” (Tompkins xv). Reader-response theory studies the reader and the audience and how they
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Explain The Religious Responses To The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang theory is the theory that there was ax explosion over 13.7 billion years ago that created space and time into existence. Before the big bang there was nothing. The universe is constantly expanding in a result of the force of the explosion. Intelligent design is the concept that scientific method along is nit enough to explain the natural world‚ and that a divine creator is a required component for any complete explanation
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Criminal Acts and Choice Response Rickey Napper University of Phoenix Online Criminal Acts and Choice Response Choice Theories There are four basic choice theories of why a person commits a crime. These four theories can be used to explain why a person commits a crime. The first theory is the rational cause theory. This theory explains that an offender’s motivation to commit a crime is for personal gain‚ such as ego‚ money‚ and greed. This theory concludes that on offender commits crimes purposely
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THE RELATION OF STRENGTH OF STIMULUS TO RAPIDITY OF HABIT-FORMATION Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson (1908) First published in Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology‚ 18‚ 459-482. In connection with a study of various aspects of the modifiability of behavior in the dancing mouse a need for definite knowledge concerning the relation of strength of stimulus to rate of learning arose. It was for the purpose of obtaining this knowledge that we planned and executed the experiments which
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1099 Introduction Cognitive theories that focus on information processing have been the most influential theories of trauma in terms of generating testable hypotheses and directing current treatments (Salmon & Bryant‚ 2002). For this reason‚ we will attempt to critically evaluate this area of trauma theory with reference to other popular theories‚ the research evidence‚ clinical practice and developmental factors. Information Processing Theories of Trauma Response Information-processing models
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