PSYC 1002 Lecture : Motivation (2)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1002
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Lecture 2: chapter 10 hunger & sexual motivation. Tends to be most people"s favourite activity . People don"t need sex to survive like they need food; however, people will go to great lengths to satisfy their sexual needs. Sex is extraordinarily important: marriage, family, aggression, competition, art, music, most creative pursuits. There are creatures without sex: sex serves the evolutionary purpose of ensuring the survival of a species, some creatures reproduce by cloning, animals that are somewhat large have two sexes. Theory: sexual desire determined by number of hormones in the organism. Estrogens named the female hormone, androgens the male hormones. Most important hormone in desire is testosterone, in both men and women. Great correlation between testosterone in women and the onset of sexual activity. Animals have a certain time when to have sex to replenish the species, i. e. when. In animals, only accounted by hormones (testosterone has an important role) females are in heat.