PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Harry Harlow, Abraham Maslow, James Olds

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4750
• Professor: Mark Fenske

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Plato (socrates student): proposed that motivation flowed from a tripartite, hierarchically arranged soul (or mind, psyche) At the most primitive level, the appetitive aspect contributed bodily appetites, desires. At the highest level, the calculating aspect contributed to decision making capacities. These 3 aspects of the psyche motivated and explained different realms of behaviour. Endorsed plato(cid:859)s hierarchically organized, tripartite psyche (appetitive, competitive, calculating) although preferred different terminology (nutritive, sensitive, rational) Nutritive -> impulsive, irrational, animal like: bodily urges. Sensitive -> bodily related but for pleasure and pain. Rational -> unique to human beings, idea-related, intellectual, and featured the will. Hundreds of years later, the greeks tripartite psyche was reduced to dualism. The passions of the body and the reason of the mind. The 2 part psyche retained the hierarchical nature because if made its chief distinction between what was irrational, impulsive, biological verus what was rational, intelligent and spiritual (the mind)