CAS PS 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mania, Hypervigilance, Mysophobia
13 Aug 2018
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I. theories that explain how motivation affects human behavior. Drive reduction theory - a physiological need creates an aroused state that drives the organism to reduce that need be engaging in some behavior: drives are internal physiological needs. Incentive theory - strongly motivated when strong pos incentives and lack of neg incentives: incentive - external stimuli, objects, and events in env that can either induce or discourage certain behaviors. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: abraham maslow - base top; physiological needs, safety needs. Love and belongingness, esteem needs, self-actualization (not all levels are equal) Ii. application of theories of motivation to understand behaviors. Biological factors that regulate motivation: temp, fluid levels, hunger, sex hormones. Sociocultural factors that regulate motivation: how society views body weight. I. understanding psychological disorders - set of behavioral and/or psychological symptoms that are not in keeping w cultural norms and that are severe enough to cause sig personal distress and or sig impairment to social, occupational, or personal functioning.
