BIO 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anorexia Nervosa, Lateral Hypothalamus, Opponent Process
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Feelings or ideas that cause us to act toward a goal. 1. 3. 2. our impulses to act in ways that satisfy our needs ex: hunger. 1. 4. 3. drive our body seeks it when we are out of it, we have a need that creates a. 1. 6. 2. satisfy our primary drives ex: we learn that money can get us food and water to: arousal theory. We seek an optimum level of excitement or arousal. 2. 1. 1. needed level we are motivated by activities that help us achieve our. 2. 2. 1. arousal level we might perform well at an easy task with a very high. 2. 2. 2. on a difficult task the same high level would worsen our performance: opponent-process theory. People are usually at a baseline (normal) state. 3. 1. 1. state we might perform an act that moves us away from this. 3. 1. 2. opponent process may be pleasurable at first, but eventually we feel an. 3. 1. 2. 1. (we want to return to baseline state)
