[PSYC 2330] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (64 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Francesco Leri

Document Summary

Basic elements of learning: environment, internal, external, there is always a stimulus, between the stimulus and the response is the brain, behaviour, memory. *all behaviours need a stimulus and some energy. Stimulus: sign (key) stimuli, social releasers, releases a behaviour from another person, ex. Energy: homeostasis the tendency of an organism to maintain an internal, body activates systems to reach/ bring it back to equilibrium equilibrium. Drive: a motivational construct associated with maintenance of the homeostatic balance of an organism, sequence of events, disturbance of homeostasis = need ex. Lack of nutrients; body temperature: the need induces a motivational state = drive (to do something about that need, the drive energizes behaviours to reduce the need state, reduction of the need also reduces the drive. Incentive motivation: hull eventually realized that the characteristics of the goal objects influence the motivation of the organism, ser = shr x d x k where k = incentive value of the goal object (ex.