PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Ice Cream, Blood Sugar, Biological Neural Network

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg

Document Summary

Motives are the needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions, propel us to achieve important goals. Many theories view motivational forces in terms of drives. Drive theories apply the concept of homeostasis a state of physiological equilibrium or stability, to behaviour. A drive is an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension. These unpleasant states of tension are viewed as disruptions of the preferred equilibrium. According to d(cid:396)i(cid:448)e theo(cid:396)ies, (cid:449)he(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e a d(cid:396)i(cid:448)e, the(cid:455)"(cid:396)e (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated to pu(cid:396)sue actions that will lead to drive reduction: for example, 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 for a while, you begin to experience some discomfort. This internal tension (the drive) motivates you to obtain food. Eating reduces the drive and restores physiological equilibrium. drive theories cannot explain all motivation.