PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Homeostasis, Hypothalamus, Tylenol (Brand)
30 Mar 2016
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Motivation: a need or desire that energizes (effortful) behavior and directs it towards a goal. A fixed (rigid and predictable) pattern of behavior. Not acquired by learning, typically rooted in genes. Do humans have instincts: at a certain stage in evolution there were, hard to find. Some strong human drives: hunger, sex, belonging. The push of biological processes and the pull of socio-cultural forces. A drive is an aroused/tense state related to a physical need. Drive-reduction theory suggests we are motivated to restore homeostasis when a drive emerges. Suggest we are motivated by learned response-reward pairings. Motivates by attracting the person to the reward, as opposed to pushing the person. A need to either increase or decrease our physiological arousal level to maintain an optimal level of arousal, as opposed to eliminating arousal. A state of experience where a person, totally absorbed, feels tremendous amounts of exhilaration, control, and enjoyment.
