Arousal, Emotion and Motivation

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 autonomic nervous system is what controls this. This is also broken up into 2 groups, Sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for arousing the body. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for calming down the body. The psychological aspect of arousal refers to an individual's subjective feeling of activation or arousal. …