PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Motivation, Delayed Gratification, Walter Mischel

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

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Lecture 6 - part 1: motivation & emotion. Drives (e. g. hunger) are psychological states that encourage behaviours (e. g. eating) that satisfy needs (e. g. (e. g. eating) that satisfy needs (e. g. food) The yerkes-dodson law : the best performance would be at a. Too much or too little arousal has a negative effect on performance. Optimum levels of arousal differ from one person to another. Hierarchy of needs: physiological needs: food, warmth, rest, water basic needs, safety needs: security, safety, belongingness and love needs: relationships, friends, esteem needs: feeling accomplished physiological needs, self actualization: achieving full potential self-fulfillment needs. Its not only our internal drives that guide our behaviour, incentives: external stimuli (as opposed to internal drives) that motivate behaviours ex. The food tastes good, so we eat it even if we"re not hungry. Extrinsic motivation: motivation to perform ann activity because of the external goals towards which the activity is directed. (means to an end)