PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Projective Test, Oedipus Complex, 16Pf Questionnaire

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Toni Serafini

Document Summary

We do things we want to do. Motivation: any condition that initiates, activate or maintains an organism"s goal directed behaviour. Usually an internal condition: inner state that energizes and directs us and keeps us moving toward our goals. Evolutionary theories: claims human behaviour is motivated by instincts. Drive theories: motivated by internal state of tension (drive). Motivates organism to engage in behaviours to remove that tension. Getting food to feel okay and balance (gaps and glitches in this theory. Incentive theories: regulation by external stimuli . ex motivate by money, treat of some sort. Yerkes-dodson law: optimal performance requires matching level of arousal to task difficulty. Measuring arousal: galvanic skin response (gsr)- measures skins electrical conductivity. On easy task- moderate to medium levels of arousal. On difficult task- high levels of arousal- harder to achieve. Expectations of reaching a goal: social needs theories. Need for (a) achievement and (b) affiliation establish social relationship to feel fulfilled: extrinsic motivation.