Psychology 1000 Chapter 11: Motivation and Emotion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Motivation- a process that influences the direction, persistence, and vigor of self-directed behaviour. Hemeostasis- the body strives to maintain an internal physical equilibrium. Drive theory physiological disruptions to homeostasis produce drives, states of internal tension that motivate an organism that reduce this tension. Incentives environmental stimuli that pull an organism toward a goal. Pull of external stimuli that have a high value to the individual o. Extrinsic motivation performing an activity to obtain an external reward or to avoid punishment o. Intrinsic motivation performing an activity for its own sake (enjoyment of the activity: overjustification hypothesis- increasing the external reward for a behaviour make the behaviour less intrinsically rewarding. Operant conditioning: maximize positive consequences, minimize negative consequences. Self- actualizing drives: humanistic & existential theories, need for achievement. Lateral hypothalamus ( hunger on ) & ventromedial hypothalamus ( hunger off : now, we know paraventricular nucleus is more important o.