PSYC 320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ghrelin, Neuropeptide Y, Starvation Response
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It"s choosing to act in a way to gets us the maximum amount of pleasure and the minimum amount of pain. Humans try to avoid pain at all costs its not pleasant. This could be for physical or emotional reasons. Why would a spouse defend her guilty husband? (hedonist perspective) It would be more painful and dif cult having to deal with trials, prison time, a divorce, and any nancial issues than to just defend him and hope things can generally go back to normal . No, drive is a result of deprivation. Out bodies automatically alert us when we are hungry, we don"t control that. Proposes that the motives of mature, emotionally healthy adults are not functionally connected to the prior experiences in which they initially appeared. Forces that motivated us early in life become autonomous, or independent, of their original circumstances.
