PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Insulin, Lateral Hypothalamus, Neuropeptide Y

• School: NMU
• Department: PY - Psychology
• Course: PY - Psychology PY 100S
• Professor: Kapla

Document Summary

Need for food, water, sex: emotional. Perceptions of world, beliefs of what can be done and expectations of how others will respond to you: social. Reactions to other people in your world (parents, friends, colleagues, etc. ) Motive: single reason or purpose explaining diverse behaviors. Abraham maslow: studied healthy people in an attempt to understand personality and self- actualization. He tried to identify key characteristics in people who seemed to really live a product/effective life. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: motivation person needs to satisfy lower needs before they have opportunity to move up to self-actualization. Why is motivation so important: cause of many behaviors: Fixed-action patterns: automatic, unlearned responses, genetically coded response to a specific releaser stimulus . Modern versions are interested in ultimate (evolutionary) causes of human behavior. We strive to maintain homeostasis, but if there is an imbalance then: needs arise. A biological requirement (food: drives arise.