PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Negative Feedback, Homeostasis, Belongingness
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Set point (e. g. you want the temp at 20 deg) Correctional mechanism regulatory behaviors: associated with a drive e. g. if we don"t have enough food in our system we get a feeling of hungry which drives/motivates us to get food. Drive reduction hypothesis (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) whack. It has some problems as a scientific theory as these drives are sort of. How do you measure a drive: maybe if it"s a biological process like hunger maybe its possible, but with psychological processes this is a lot harder. Make a drive worse before it gets better ex. Not eating all day intentionally to build up hunger drive for good dinner at the end of the day (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) You can think about this with a scenario with athletics. The hakka rugby team war ritual to get physically motivated/hyped up (cid:1) (cid:1) have. For different activities, there are optimal levels of arousal to.
