PSYCH-UA 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Homeostasis, Al-Wasat Party, Vasodilation
6 Oct 2016
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People everywhere feel a wide range of emotions, psychological experiences that affect our actions, feelings, and bodies. People also have deep-seated biological urges (feeding, fighting, fleeing, affiliating, and mating) and evolved needs (achievement and self-actualization) Many of these motives reveal our basic mammalian core; we spend large portions of our lives finding food, seeking shelter, fending off rivals, tending to our allies, and seeking sex--pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The manner in which the impulses are expressed is strongly shaped by the people and culture around the individual. The emotional responses a far from the only impulses that are jointly determined by biological heritage and cultural context. Some answers about the way we act or feel as we do focus on causes that are specific to the individual, but are nonetheless fairly remote from the present situation (motivation) People are motivated by different forces in different circumstances.
