HLSC111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Exclusion, Habituation, Hypothalamus
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Theories of motivation derive from: physiology, personality, cognition. Focus on what internal needs and desires initiate behaviour: process theories: seek to explain how behaviour is initiated. As the national population is aging and most diseases in middle age and older are lifestyle related, what can be done to maintain or improve health: at the level of population, at the level of the individual. The hypothalamus is involved with: hunger, thirst, emotion, sex and reproduction. Hunger is a biologically created sensation and stimulates food intake using biological and psychological processes: biological factors, psychological factors. Solomon"s opponent-process theory of acquired motives: wanted to explain drug addiction, people acquire habits of doing things that provide emotional excitement and break up boredom, based on a notion of affective contract and affective habituation. Used the individual approach focusing on the uniqueness of individuals. Theory included psychological motives: dominance (power, affiliation, achievement. Internal state that is less than satisfactory: lacks something necessary for well being.
