EMOTIONAL STIMULUS
Nervousness is one of the emotional reactions that happen to people, in most cases, when exposed to an attention-demanding stimulus. One of these stimuli, for example, includes an interview. Interviews are attention-seeking, as well as brain-involving activities, which failing or passing leads to various outcomes (Goldstein, 2010). In this case, therefore, the human mind is designed to responding with nervousness, in case of an interview. At the same time, cognitive memory plays a major role in the same.
For instance, a person who has severally failed in previous interviews is likely to get more nervous compared to those who haven’t, because nervousness develops as a responsive mechanism to the interviews. However, this cognitive reaction is developed as a result of being exposed to the stimulants, in this case, the interviews.
However, it is necessary to develop counter-responsive reactions, and these will serve to boost confidence, which will go a long way in ensuring that the person is able to effectively face and address nervousness. Confidence in this case, therefore, will act as the counter-responsive reaction towards the interview, which is the stimulus in this case. At the same time, confidence acts as an effective adaptive behavior option, which will go a long way in monitoring emotions’ expressions, such as hands movement, speech regulations and response to questions, among other expressions. The resulting emotion in this case, therefore, will be confidence and steadiness.
Lastly, it is necessary to note the fact that a person is able to cope with the stimulus in suture which in this case is the interview, based on the fact that getting used to being exposed to it, as well as the cognitive development of confidence will aid in the same. From this perception, therefore, the relationship between motivation and emotions is the fact that effective development of a cognitive approach to something leads to motivation of the same response in future, especially, when the stimulus is repeated (Steinberg, 2011).
References
Goldstein, B. (2010). Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience with Coglab Manual. New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 99.
Steinberg, K. (2011). Cognitive Psychology. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 116.
