PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Vaginal Lubrication, Limbic System, Binge Eating
22 Jan 2018
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Motivational theories and concepts: motives are the needs, wants, interests, and desires that propel people in certain directions, propel us to achieve important goals, motivation involves goal-directed behaviour. The hunger motive has usually been conceptualized as a drive system if you go without food for a while, you begin to experience some discomfort. This internal tension (the drive) motivates you to obtain food. Eating reduces the drive and restores physiological equilibrium: drive theories cannot explain all motivation. The value of the desired incentive: expectancy-value models have proven to be useful in understanding a range of human behaviours and motivations. Evolutionary theories: evolutionary psychologists assert that human motives and those other species are the products of evolution, just as anatomical characteristics are. They argue that natural selection favours behaviours that maximize reproductive success passing on genes to the next generation. Biological factors in the regulation of hunger: walter cannon and a. l.
