PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Natural Selection, Projective Test, Palatability
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Goals can be a result of both intentional and automatic activation ( foster, Needs, wants, interest, and desires propelling people in directions. Street kids focus on short term goals = (cid:498)aimless(cid:499) lives. Motivation forces seen as (cid:498)drives (cid:498: applied in psychoanalytic and behaviorist, drive = applies homeostasis to behavior. Homeostasis: state of physiological equilibrium or stability. Doesn"t explain all motivations, homeostasis may be irrelevant; (cid:498)thirst for knowledge(cid:499) i. e. ice cream, car. Drive theories: emphasize how internal states of tension push people; source of. Incentive: external goal that can motivate behavior; may reduce/increase drives i. e. want ice cream after seeing advertisement for it motivation = within organism. Incentive theories: how external stimuli pull people; source of motivation = outside of organism (environment) People can"t always attain desired goals: expectancy about one"s chance of attaining the incentive, the value of the desired incentive.
