PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Basal Metabolic Rate, Sexual Coercion, Motivation
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Deiniion moivaion: an inferred process within a person or animal that causes movement either toward a goal/away from an unpleasant situaion. Study of moivaion: focus on drives: biological urges (mainly), other things as well though not just biological drives. Understanding moivaion: importance and signiicance: relates biology to behaviour, accounts for behavioural variability, infers private states from public acts, assigns responsibility for acions, explain perseverance despite adversity. Inluences of moivaion: intrinsic moivaion: the pursuit of an acivity for its own sake and the pleasure it brings, extrinsic moivaion: the pursuit of an acivity for external rewards, such as money or fame. Monitor quanity and quality of food eaten. Detect when suicient food has been eaten and stop eaing. Gastric acivity in empty stomach acts as basis for hunger. Saiety cues inluence terminaion of eaing: biology of weight. Overweight people doesn"t not mean emoionally disturbed. Biological mechanisms regulate body weight are inluenced by geneics.
