PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: The Need, Phantom Limb, Human Behavior
1 Dec 2016
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The seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain. Cues or stimuli have motivational properties because they have become associated with positive or negative experiences. Stimulation divided into 3 categories: beneception, nociception, neutroception. Beneception: occurs when pleasant feelings are aroused by stimuli; erotic stimuli, pleasant smells, low intensities salt/sour. Nociception: occurs as the result of stimuli that arouse unpleasant feelings; pain, bitter taste, intense salt/sour, nauseating smells, excessive heat. Neutroception: exists when stimuli cause neither pleasant nor unpleasant feelings; vision, audition, cutaneous touch, kinesthesis. The hedonic value of an object is closely tied to sensory qualities it possess the effect on. Reaction of sense organs in a bright pressure produce pleasant feelings. Believed that instructions alter the pleasantness of stimuli by changing the actions of the sense organs rather than by altering perception of the stimuli at the brain. Paul thomas young- best known hedonic theorists. The affective processes represented by this continuum have three properties: sign, intensity, duration.
