PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Humanistic Psychology, Orgasm, Personal Development

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Some behaviours are motivated for their own sake. Critical thinking skill: recognizing when psychological reactance may be influencing your thinking. Cultural scripts and cultural rules shape sexual interactions. Critical thinking skill: recognizing and correcting for belief persistence in your own thinking and in that of others. Motivation: factors that energize, direct, or sustain behaviour. There are four essential qualities of motivational states: States are energizing - they activate or arouse behaviours. States are directive - they guide behaviours towards satisfying specific goals or needs. States help people persist - until goals are achieved. Motives differ in strength - depending on internal and external factors. Need hierarchy: maslow"s arrangement of needs, in which basic survival needs must be met before people can satisfy higher needs. Placed survival needs like hunger and thirst at the base, believing they must be satisfied first. This theory is an example of humanistic psychology - viewing people as striving toward fulfillment.