PS101 Lecture 10: APP Ch.10 Outline Motivation_Emotion
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Activities that should reduce this tension: when you experience discomfort, an internal drive motivates you to. Establish homeostasis again: drive theories don"t explain all motivation. Incentive theory: incentive an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behavior, incentive theory revolves around external stimuli, not internal like drive. Theory: evolutionary theory, motivation comes from natural selection, range & diversity of human motives, biological motives motives pertaining to homeostasis. (food, drink, sex, social motives motives pertaining to social experiences. (achievement, Stable: explains how people usually put back on weight after they lose it, settling-point theory weight tends to drift around the level at which the. Constellation of factors that determine food consumption and energy expenditure achieves an equilibrium: dietary restraint people are constantly thinking about food while dieting, so. Terms of time, energy, survival risk, and forgone opportunities, to produce and.