PSY B110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6-7: Dialectic, 18 Months, Operant Conditioning
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What moves our behavior: motivation the forces that activate and direct behavior, emotion complex internal state that involves physiological, cognitive, and behavioral components. Instincts- unlearned behaviors, do not require previous experience or learning. Evolutionary psychology - seeks to explain behavior in terms of its function. Unlearned behavior behaviors that are apparent from a very early age onwards and require very little experience to emerge. Ethology seeks to study the behavior of animals in their natural habitat. Modal action patterns occur in the same fashion, time and time again, an in nearly every individual. How do internal factors motivate my behavior: drives central concept in motivation, internal forces that provide us with the energy and intensity to regain homeostasis. Drive-reduction occurs after we begin to reduce a need, when we begin to feel better. Incentives reinforcements and punishments, external forces that act on our behavior.
