PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Foreplay, Negative Feedback, Belongingness

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Others will help, but it is ultimately your choice. System variable existing within a certain temperature band. Set point where the body want to be. Detector variable to check the current temperature. Correctional mechanism the regulatory behaviour (to fix the temp to normal) We have certain drives; an activation complex specific to what we are feeling. Exam example: there is a threshold in the middle where the performance is optimal. Constant interplay between the recent past and the drives being pushed forward. Over-justification hypothesis (danger that if done, then without reward, no response) Learned helplessness (nothing i can do can change anything, so i will stay and take it) (a apparatus of depression) When one of these things is absent, nothing else matters but that specific need. Example: food; when there is none in stock, and when it"s right in front of you, nothing matters but your needs.