01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Motivation, Overjustification Effect, Lateral Hypothalamus

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Lawrence Jacobs

Document Summary

Motivation videos: drive theories, they are goal directed behaviors. If an individual varies the behavior and persists until reaching a goal, it is a motivated behavior: the word motivation is derived from the same root as (cid:498)motion(cid:499) -- something that. )f the (cid:494)push(cid:495) comes from within, it(cid:495)s a drive (cid:523)internal conditions(cid:524). )f it comes from (cid:494)outside/external(cid:495) sources, it(cid:495)s )ncentive (external motivations): homeostasis - maintenance of bio conditions, it(cid:495)s equilibrium your body must maintain to keep you alive. Incentive theories: a drive is a state of unrest or irritation that energizes one behavior after, drive-reduction theory proposes that animals strive to reduce their drives another until one of them removes the irritation. as much as possible. Incentives are external stimuli that pull us toward certain actions. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations: an intrinsic motivation is a motivation to do an act for its own sake, an extrinsic motivation is based on the reinforcements and punishments that may follow an action.