PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Negative-Feedback Amplifier, Homeostasis, Organism
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Motivation: the purpose for or psychological cause of an action. The desires, needs, and interests that arouse and activate an organism toward a specific goal. Emotions provide people with information about the world and are the objectives toward which people strive. Hedonic principle: the notion that all people are motivated to experience pleasure and avoid pain. Unlearned characteristic patterns of responding controlled by specific triggering stimuli in the world. Out of favor as an explanation for human behavior. Drive-reduction theory: a theory suggesting that organisms are motivated to reduce their drives. The maintenance of a balanced system through self-regulation. Movement away from a set point results in compensatory responses to restore the balance. A set of behaviors designed to reduce or eliminate bodily tension: organism has needs, needs lead to drive, motivated behavior is a form of drive reduction. Abraham maslow"s theory of motivation: hierarchy of needs. People are motivated to fulfill a hierarchy of needs.
