PSY-0001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Homeostasis, Social Rejection
11 Nov 2016
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Motivation: psychological and biological processes that impel people and other organisms into action and to sustain their actions over time. Drive: psychological state that, by creating arousal, motivates an organism to satisfy a need. Need for belonging spend time with others, form groups. Experiment compared physical pain and emotional pain from social rejection. Unrealistic optimism: desirable outcomes more likely, undesirable outcomes less likely. Better-than-average effect: most think they are better than average, which is impossible. Self-serving bias: attribute positive outcomes to internal, negative outcomes to external. Self-handicapping: sabotage our own performance to have excuse for failure. Goals: mental representations of aim of activity. Lose 5 pounds this month, instead of lose some weight this month. Plans that specify when, where, how responses will lead to goal attainment. Motivation because of pleasure associated with event. Self-determination theory: external reward takes away intrinsic pleasure. Self-perception theory: draw inferences about our motives according to behavior.
