PSY 3109 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Oste, Classical Conditioning, Neophobia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3109
• Professor: Heatherarmstrong

Document Summary

Motivation chapter 3: the toppling of the initial dominoes represents evolutionary history, which topples later dominoes that represent personal history. The 10th or last domino represents motivated behavior in the present: evolution created human body and human nature, human nature: behavioral, motivational, and emotional characteristics that people have in common in spite of environmental and cultural differences. Both heredity (nature) and experience (nurture) contribute to the motivation of behavior, just like length and width contribute to the area of a rectangle. Also called evolutionary history and personal history. The relative contribution of each aspect varies between behaviours ex: some may be almost all enviro (ex: mastering long division) and other almost all genetic (knowing how to learn) Behaviours strongly influenced by heredity are considered innate. Similarly, heredity and environment contribute different amounts to behavior, like length and width contribute to area of a rectangle.