Video Transcript: Emotion and Motivation

Well, I really like this apple. Oh, wow. Oh, I'm sorry. I was really enjoying this  apple. So good. You know, when it comes to emotion and motivation, it's kind of  like eating an apple. You see, when I'm eating an apple, I begin to and as I bite  into it, I began to feel emotions of satisfaction, of arousal, of just pleasure, and  also the fact that I was hungry, and physically I feel better and I'm ready to just  carry on with my day. But also when it comes to eating this apple and so on,  what's my motivation? Well, first of all, I like apples. That's one motivation that  that what drives me is to eat healthy, and another motivation is that I try not to  eat too much. Sometimes I'll eat a little more than I should. Back over 10 years  ago, I realized if I didn't do something, I was going to be overweight for quite a  while, and so I I then took time to to to run now five times a week, sometimes six times a week, once every day. Maybe you run seven times a day or or maybe  you're hearing this and saying, I'm lucky if I get out once every week to run or  exercise. But I was driven by the fact that I needed to be well and I needed to  eat the right things, eat less pizza and keep going. Emotion, motivation.  Sometimes when you come to the end of the apple, then you're asking, Well,  what's next? Let's take a look emotion and motivation, arousal and all these  other rich psychological terms to help us better understand the human  experience that God has given you and me. Fascinating. Well, first of all, let's  look at this. What is this whole thing of emotion, emotion, emotion and  motivation. You can see these great visuals of expression and surprise, anger,  other motions of surprise as well, others forms of surprise or disdain, you see  that the other mask there or sadness or happiness, expressed with a chuckle,  emotion has many other expressions. You can see these. It's a mental and  physiological feelings state that directs our attention and guides our behavior.  And they can see surprise. Here in these pictures, you see also excitement. You also see the whole thing of frustration, someone's about to burst with a whole  range of emotion. And there's happiness, there's joy, there's there's the whole  thing of trying to get somebody's attention because you are excited, and so on  all the way to someone baring his teeth. I see that there. He's saying, No, same  way for me and try to cause fear. And the guy in the middle there, well, he's  saying it's time to smile. There's empathy, compassion, perhaps, all kinds of  different emotions. Which motion then can you. Relate with right now in these  pictures? Well, we go from emotion, then to motivation. Motivation is the process that initiates guides and maintains goal oriented behaviors. Is what causing you  to act, whether it is getting a glass of water to reduce thirst or reading a book to  gain knowledge. And as you can see here to the left of the definition, motivation  is where you have attitude support. Do I want to support someone? Give a hand up the attitude. I can I can be a good attitude, a bad attitude. And many other  examples that flow out of motivation. Well, for motivation, we also look at drive.  What is driving me? Like what I said earlier, there's that Apple, this apple that I  just I was motivated to eat this. Explain why. And we have a drive that moves us 

and a goal that we want to achieve. But what are they? We say those words  often. What do they mean? Let's take a look so drive and goal. Drive refers to  the internal states that are activated when the physiological characteristics of  the body are out of balance. We're trying to gain balance. In other words, so I  saw a problem with my weight when I was about 38, 39 years old. Now I'm 51  years old, and I feel what drove me was to gain balance. And I went to running  five times a week. I ate less. I was driven to lose the weight, especially because  my doctor said I had to. And it came to a point where I did lost 25-30 pounds. I  average about 175 now right where I need to be. And so God gave me the  solution. You know, the Holy Spirit brought me to the solution. I was driven.  That's a God given component of your person, and then is the goal, or in other  words, the result. See the goal is the desired end states. And see plural,  because we have many goals, end states that we strive to attain and striving in  a healthy manner, as opposed to, well, I got to perform in order to gain God's  acceptance, or perform to always please people all the time, which also is very  unhealthy, as the writer of the gospel said, Brendan Manning said, I came to  realization here, there, and in the late 70s that, Oh, God actually likes me. I  didn't have to strive and perform to gain God's acceptance. He already has kind  of likes me, and he does. There's a drive and a goal, then to do good works that  God prepared in advance for us to do. Thank you, Lord for under the  understanding that we now have with psychology. So from there, with Drive and  goal, we then get into goal and drive in terms of theory. Notice the four drive  theory to better. Break it down, first look at drive to acquire, drive to bond, drive  to learn and drive to defend. Drive to acquire is a drive to take deep or keep  pride, take and keep objects and experiences. And then the basis of hierarchy  and status. You can see latent learning as a learning application here, drive to  bond, drive to form relationships and social commitments, basis of social  identity. As a result, drive to learn, drive to satisfy curiosity and resolve  conflicting information. Finally, the drive to defend, the need to protect ourselves, reactive, not proactive. Drive, really, and the basis of fight or flight. You probably  heard that of course, fight and flight we with with we're gonna get into  temperament and in the following videos as well, and it's where we then look at  how we then have the fight or flight we have what makes we also understand  what makes us depressed by nature, and also what our strengths and  weaknesses are. Very important in the realm of psychology. Because we have  God given strengths. And conversely, we have witnesses, not God given  necessarily, but just just there. We're not complete, but we have strengths that  God will complete, given our broken world. Hence we then have the four drive  theory to understand better what then drives us different contexts and also  points of reference. So then from the four drive theory, we then get into the goal  theory. We look at learning here again, what, drives us to learn and also bring it  bring us to a goal, therefore, well, the learners behavior is working towards 

outcomes, outcomes, and as we go to outcomes, these are goals. Now, two  things happen when it comes to going towards those outcomes, or goals or just  like the goalie that we saw in two slides ago. And of course, what drives us, like  the race car driver, we look at mastering goals or outcomes for reflect a desire to gain knowledge and skills, and then performance goals to reflect a desire to look competent in others eyes. So first we want to master the outcome we have.  Again, goes back to really what latent theory, or latent learning, then does,  where we we learn by experience, and of course, the steps we do along the way to get to these outcomes. But then we what we learn, we then file away and we  bring it back. We have mastery over these things. And then the theory goes on  to talk about performing, performing, showing our mastery of the outcomes, to  look competent, to be known, that we have expertise and that we can handle the job, whatever that may be, personal or professional. So then, from Drive goals,  we then look at arousal, arousal. And I'm not just talking about sexual arousal, I  think we understand what that is, but we also get all forms of arousal. All forms  of arousal goes to this definition. It starts with this. It is the state of being  activated, either physiologically or psychologically. We don't get the  psychological aspect of arousal, although when it comes to physiological comes  to the body being aroused, and in many different ways, arousal could refer to  anger or, of course, aroused because of sadness or because of sexual attraction or because of the Fight or Flight fear. Again, there's also psychological  components to consider, and as one dimension of our affective response to  emotional stimuli. Now, from arousal, we then go to the understanding of affect  and effect. Why? Because, with arousal, it then causes us to to then look at  what is driving us, and vice versa. What drives us when we get into state of  drive, it has to do with the fact that we have been aroused. You can remember,  in Scripture, God's anger was aroused. It is a God given characteristic in our  being. Image of God, we are the image bearers. We then reflect back to God,  and God back that back and forth. We have this thing called arousal, which then  connects to the drive. It's kind of like plugging it in. And when it plugs in, look  out, because this is what happens, affect and effect, from the light bulb that  turns on boom to then the affect and effect. And the affect is the cause. The  effect is the result. So let's look at this. We look at Affect and Effect. Affect  means to influence or to produce a change in something. An example would be  the affected skin turns red and may blister. Hence the domino effect. The effect  is unknown, and it means the result of a change. So if an event affects your life,  you will feel the events effect my father's. Death had a profound effect on us all.  I can relate to this example in terms of, well, my father in law, my wife's father,  when this is the six year anniversary of his death this past week, and I still  remember walking into that nursing home room. He was only 67 years old, and  because of a genetic disorder and complications, because of the genetic  disorder, with his health and things declining, and his body just couldn't handle it

anymore, and to see him gone on his deathbed, literally, where he just could not  move, very different than what you see in a casket at A viewing, a visitation. This is fresh and standing there with my wife, the shock and awe, the grief, there's a  

great father in law, empathy, compassionate, giving, supportive, loving, and  when all those things came out in the eulogy, it was this affect produces the  effect of Tears, tears to compassion and empathy with are my fellow mourners, i  is, or perhaps the effect from the affect. The affect may be that you are at the  best, the best time of your life. You're saying, I do, for some people that they  look back and say, was that the best I don't know, pray for them, but for all of us, including myself. I look back at the day I said, I do. It was the best from the best  days of my life. As I look back almost 31 years ago, and I say, Thank you, God,  because at that moment that my wife walked down the aisle, the affect was, this  is real. And yes, I do not have to help me words on my shoes. So when we  kneeled and I'm Protestant, but so we just kneel because of prayer, our choice.  Well, anyway, I didn't have the help me words on my bottom my shoes to gain a  reaction. No, I said I do because I wanted to. I had happy tears that day. The  affect was that I was about to engage in and connect with my best friend, my  wife, through everything with God's help and God bringing us together for his  purposes, his will, his family and to go forward in faith, which is the effect  happiness, commitment, excitement, all those emotions that we saw earlier, and there's been sadness, loss, as I reflected a few minutes ago, but also hope, and  our hope for you today is that now you understanding emotion motivation, drive  goals and Also the drive theory, the affect and the effect as we are aroused by  the stimuli around us, but then honor God with our minds and our bodies and  our communities. Keep moving forward, and we'll see you next video, you.