PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Drive Theory, Homeostasis, Waggle Dance
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Instinct: a non-learned complex bhaviour programmed throughout a species to increase the chance of survival: problems. 1 instincts are supposed to be automatic and inflexible, just as reflexes. If you"re hungry you can usually wait or ignore this until a more convenient time. Do we have an instinct for achievement or for. 3 even bees communicate and make decisions. Bees do not just automatically make decisions they communicate with pheromones and waggle dance and make a consensus decision purpose: drive theory. Homeostasis: the tendency for a system to take actions to keep itself in a particular balanced state. Drive: a motivational state caused by your physiology in order to maintain homeostasis. Yerkes-dodson law: the u-shaped relationship between amount of arousal and performance eon a task. Incentive theory: we seek out oth things that we require to survive (hunger, thirst) and things that we find will get rewarded for; we avoid thing sthat we will be punished for.
