PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Monosaccharide, Clitoral Hood, The Roots
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During a long class, you may begin to feel hungry. The hunger motive has usually been conceptualized as a drive system if you go without food, you begin to experience some discomfort. This internal tension motivates you to get food. Eating reduces the drive and restores physiological equilibrium. Incentive theories: an incentive is an external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour, drive and incentive models of motivation are often contrasted as push-versus-pull theories. Drive theories emphasize how internal states of tension push people in certain directions. Expectancy about one"s chances of attaining the incentive. The range and diversity of human motives: biological motives such as hunger, originate in bodily needs, while social motives such as the need for achievement, originate in social experiences, examples of biological motives: Biological factors in the regulation of hunger: stomach contractions often accompany hunger, but don"t cause it, brain regulation. The experience of hunger is controlled in the brain specifically, in the hypothalamus.
