Biology 4611F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Basal Metabolic Rate, Human Sexual Response Cycle, Childhood Obesity
23 Jul 2015
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Chapter 11: motivation and emotion: motivation, process that influences the direction, persistence, and vigour of goal-directed behaviour. Instinct theory and evolutionary psychology: darwin"s evolution theory inspired views that instincts motivate much of our behaviour. Incentive and expectancy theories: drives are internal factors that push an organism into action. Incentives: environmental stimuli that pull an organism toward a goal i. e. good grade is an incentive that pulls a student. Drug is motivated by the positive incentive value of the drug"s effect: some people respond different to the same incentive. Because of cognition people with similar aptitude have different goals: expectancy theory, the answer to the cognitive approach lies in this theory of expectancy x value theory, proposes that goal-directed behaviour is determined by two factors: Strength of the person"s expectation that particular behaviours will lead to a goal. Value the individual places on that goal called incentive value: extrinsic motivation:
