PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Electrodermal Activity, Limbic System, Display Rules
28 Feb 2014
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Chapter 10 summary notes motivation and emotion. Motivation: a process that influences the direction, persistence and vigor of goal-directed behaviour: psychologists identify factors that move us towards our goals, whether they be obtaining food, a mate, success or even peace and quiet. Drive theory: physiological disruptions to homeostasis produce drives, states of internal tension that motivate an organism to behave in ways that reduce this tension: eg. Metabolism: the body"s rate of energy (or caloric) utilization and about 2/3 of energy we normally use goes to support basal metabolism, the resting continuous metabolic work of body cells. There are short term signals that start meals by producing hunger and stop food intake by producing satiety and long term signal that are based on our body fat. The set point theory is that there in an internal physiological standard around which body weight is regulated.
