Arousal, emotion and motivation

Arousal Motivation and Emotion Arousal refers to the activation of the body. In better words it refers to the level of activation or energy that a person needs to mobilize for performing any behavior. There are two types of arousal, physiological and psychological arousal. Physiological arousal refers to those bodily changes that correspond to our feeling of being activated. Increased heart rate and blood pressure, muscular tension and sweating are all examples of this. The …

…is known that an increase in arousal is usually accompanied by both increases and decreases in behavior efficiency. With many, the time of day matters. Individual arousal is controlled by his/her internal bio-rhythm. This refers to a 24-hour change in a person sleep wake cycle. This also includes changes in body temp., heart rate and blood pressure. As the body temp increases from morning till noon then declines, so does the arousal and efficiency.