1. Researchers believe that the frontal lobes and the amygdala are among the most important brain structures affecting emotions. Feelings of happiness and pleasure are linked to the prefrontal cortex. Anger, fear, sadness, and other negative emotions are linked to the amygdala.

2. What drives motivation? Expectation and personal value
Unconscious Emotional Processing
Quickly screen incoming stimuli
Helps us respond quickly to important cues
Is linked to implicit memory
Can be learned through classical conditioning
Interaction of Conscious & Unconscious
Feelings can well up into consciousness from
the unconscious system (i.e. intuition)
Conscious can signal fear to the unsconscious
(i.e. knot in stomach)
Conscious Emotional Processing
Is linked to explicit memory
Slowly generates thorough and deliberate
emotions
Relies heavily on the cerebral cortex
Cerebral Cortex
Limbic System
Amygdala
Theory
What drives motivation?
Instinct Theory
Biological processes
Each year, over 1.5 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle migrate into Kenya and back.
Drive Theory
Biological needs
When you are thirsty, you drink something.
Cognitive Theories
Expectation and personal value
If you value good grades and believe that studying yields good grades, you will study.
Freud’s Theory
Unconscious desires
Creative work indirectly satisfies the sex drive.
Maslow’s Theory
Priority of needs
A student will prefer to sleep and cram in the morning in order fulfill the most basic need—sleep.

4. TOPIC 1 - Emotion
Emotion (BBC)
Emotions Part 2(BBC)
Physical Responses to Fear
Research about Emotional Face Processing
TOPIC 2 – Motivation
Motivation in Learning
Motivation & Addiction
(Part of brain that controls emotion is stimulated by drugs)
Practice Quiz 1
Practice Quiz 2