Rosa Rahin

Emotion and Motivation 

Most of our behaviour is not caused by free will, emotion and motivation play very 

important role in causing our behaviour.

There are however, factors that cause emotion and motivation and finding these factors can help

Psychotherapists/ Psychologists (or people in general)  to change their behaviour. Having said that we can't actually see the causes, we can only see the 

behaviour changes and that's usually how we recognise the emotional changes in someone. In order for us to change our behaviour, a 'drive' is needed, this could be a stimulus that can motivate us for taking an action/ making changes in our behaviour. However, drives have different effects depending on the situations. in other words, a stimulus which can motivate someone to take an action/ change someone's behaviour today, might not be as effective the next day and that goes back the person's needs at the time. For example if someone is hungry, food can be a good stimulus for them however, when they are not hungry using food as a drive would not be as effective.

It is important to note that, behaviour changes result in changes in hormones and cellular activities. Therefore behaviour changes, can effect the brain structure. beside changes in the brain experience, rewards and punishments, and knowledge would also change people's behaviour.

Motivated Behaviour and Neuroanatomy Hypothalamus, Limbic system and Frontal Lobe are the critical structures of the brain in motivation. Hypothalamus is very important in releasing hormones, in fact it sends messages to the Pituitary Gland and ask for changes that should happen during releasing hormones. Messages could be about releasing a particular hormone, stope resealing a hormone or increase/ decrease in releasing hormones.

Hypothalamus is informed about these needs via the Feedback Loops, Neural Regulation and Experiential Responses. Hypothalamus play a very important role in changing behaviour because as soon as the Hypothalamus is stimulated changes occur in the person's behaviour. As mentioned before, Limbic Circuit is another brain area involved in motivation of behaviour. The limbic cortex is consisted of Cingulate gyrus, Hippocampal Formation and Amygdala. Hippocampal Formation is made up of Hippocampus and Parahippocampal cortex. Hippocampal Formation and Amygdala are involved in eating and sexual activities. Amygdala on it's own however, is more involved in emotional feelings and behaviour that occur due to our emotions. In fact there are three components of emotion and the first one is physiological responses which is caused by Hypothalamus. The second part is about subjective feelings and is caused by Amygdala and lastly cognitions which is caused by Cerebral Cortex. Rosa Rahin (talk) 14:05, 2 October 2011 (UTC)Rosa Rahin Oct 2 2011 Kolb, B., Whishaw, I. Q. (2011). An Introduction to Brain and Behaviour. America: Worth Publishers.

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