PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Belongingness, Premarital Sex, Food Marketing

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Quinton Wendy

Document Summary

Motive- an impulse, desire or need that leads to an action or behavior. Motivation- includes the processes that give behavior its direction and energy, is concerned with why and how behavior occurs. General theories of motivation-why we do what we do. Drive theory: drive- internal state of physiological tension that we seek to reduce, originally used to explain biological function- eating, drinking. Food deprivation- hunger(drive)- eating(behavior)- drive reduction: cannot explain why people. Do things in absence of tension- ex. Arousal theory: we seek to achieve and maintain an optimum level of bodily arousal, sensory restriction studies. Wilson et al. (2014)- many people prefer electric shocks to being left alone with their thoughts- people would rather be electrically shocked than being left alone to think: sensory overload studies. People want to get away from too many things like loud music and.