PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Homeostasis, The Need, Natural Selection
10 Feb 2020
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Motivation relate to the study of the processes involved in goal-directed behaviour: goal-directed behaviours is associated with specific emotions. Motives are the needs, wants, desires that propel people in certain directions, propel us to achieve important goals. Drive theories apply the concept of homeostasis, a state of physiological equilibrium of stability to behaviour. Drive is an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce this tension: when individuals experience an drive, they"re motivated to pursue actions that will lead to drive reduction. Incentive theories: proposed that external stimuli regulate motivational states. Incentive is an external goal that had the capacity to motivate behaviour. Drive and incentive models of motivation are often contracted as push-versus-pull theories. Drive theories empathize how internal states of tension push people in certain directions: the sources of motivation lies within the organism.
