PSYCH 3M03 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Genetics, Evolution, Dopamine

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3M03
• Professor: Lucas Greville

Document Summary

Motivation: impulses to behave in a manner that alters or sustains the course of life. By seeking survival, growth, reproduction, social advancement, or changes in finer aspects of our relationship to nature and other people. Emotion: internal sensations of individuals, often in response to physiological events. Emotions/motivations often start with strong internal feelings (e. g. , rapid heart rate or feelings in stomach) Must have cognitive ability to attribute these sensations. Primitive people were the first to consider what these feelings mean. The same physiological events to describe/relate to different emotions. They began attributing these drives/motivation to different things. As we evolve, we get better answers to these questions. Language allows us to characterize & categorize drives & physiological responses. But with language, there"s some confusion & inconsistency. Primitive people said that every living thing had a spirit. Attribution of spirits to activity of people, other animals, & even plants, natural forces, & abstract concepts.