PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Meta-Analysis, Russ Feingold, David Buss
23 Jan 2018
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Price et ai. (2008) propose that a desireexpectation model can account for many of the observed placebo effects. Motivation for a hunger strike is to achieve a political goal. Determined will: your wants or motives resulted from your genome: the intervening nature of motivational processes is one reason motivation is difficult to study. We can only infer the existence of motivation by observing changes in the relationshipsbetween stimulus conditions and responses: a second difficulty stems from the temporary nature of motivation. Psychologists typically describe the temporary nature of motivation by pointing out that motivation is a performance variable: directionality is often considered an index of motivational state. The direction that a particular behavior takes is usually obvious, as in going to the refrigerator when we are hungry; however, when several choices are possible, directionality is sometimes not so clear. Buss (1988) found that men do appear to display their resources (e. g. , expensive cars, stereos, buying of gifts) as predicted.
