PSY 1101 Lecture 11: PSY1101 Ch. 11-12

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Jenna Boulanger

Document Summary

Moivaional theories (cid:0) moivaiona need or desire that energizes and directs behavior (set of complex drivers of behavior, not posiive or negaive, a mover ) An insinct is a complex behavior with a ixed patern and is unlearned arcuate nucleus- appeite- suppressing and simulaing hormones (cid:0) types of moivaion. Intrinsic- desire to engage in tasks that are inherently saisfying and enjoyable, novel, or opimally challenging; to do something for its own sake ( i did it because i wanted to ) Competence- striving to be capable and exercising control (doing well in psy1101) Achievement- striving to excel and outperform others lomoarcpsd (cid:0) Energy homeostasis- long-term matching of food intake to energy expenditure. Baseline metabolic rate (bmr)- at rest, the rate at which a body uses energy for vital funcions (rate of energy expenditure) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0) (cid:0)