Study Of Motivational Dimension Of Affect Influence Breadth Of Attention

The research on affect has always focused on the valence of affect and the arousal of affect.Until the Gable and Harmon-Jones(2010)suggested that the affect could have motivational dimension,and they believed that the intensity and direction of motivation are not completely corresponding to the arousal and valence.Thus,they established the motivational dimension model of affect,which indicates that no matter the motivation is approach or avoidance,the state of low affect will induce attentional expansion of individuals,and the state of high affect will narrow the breath of attention.After this,some scholars attempt to separate motivational dimension with arousal and valence through the empirical researches to prove that the motivation is a separate motivational dimension of affect.But throughout these researches,we found out an insufficient point that is these researches don't separate motivation with the materials of valence and arousal effectively.Due to these deficiencies,this study will strictly control experiment conditions and try to separate the direction of motivation with valence as well as the intensity of motivation with arousal,to demonstrate the influence of motivation towards the breath of attention clearly.In summary,this research will explore the research of motivational dimension towards the breach of attention based on the motivational dimension model of affect of the Gable and Harmon-Jones.There are three experiments in this study,studyl will explore the influence of arousal consistency/valence consistency/the affect of different motivational intensity towards the breath of attention.study2 will explore the influence of arousal consistency/the difference of valence/the affect of inconsistency of motivational direction towards the breath of attention.study3 will explore the influence of arousal consistency/the difference of valence/the affect of consistency of motivational direction towards the breath of attention.Moreover,this research will utilize short video to induce the state of affect and use the alphabet task paradigm of Navon(1977)to measure the breath ofattentio on.The results of this study demonstrate:(1)the positive and negative affect of the high intensity of motivation could cause followed breadth of attention narrowing,motivation intensity is not corresponding to the arousal;(2)the positive and negative affect of high approach motivation could cause followed breadth of attention narrowing,but the intensity of the former is greater and the direction of motivation is not correspond to the valence;(3)the low affect of motivation of of the motivational direction could cause followed breadth of attention expanding,but the direction of motivation don't influence the bias of attention;(4)The direction of motivation don't directly link with valence,the intensity of motivation don't directly link with arousal,which support this idea that the motivational dimension is a separate dimension.