PSYC 3405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Strongest, Homeostasis, Drive Theory
16 Jan 2016
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*note, as most material presented is accessible in the professors slides, these notes are mainly a short summary of main points and the class proceedings. What are your course objectives: culearn psyc3405a discussion what do you want to get out of this course. Chapter 1: motivation is the process that gives behaviour energy and direction. Emotions: essential and necessary for the maintenance of life, mental events: thoughts, beliefs, expectations and, organize our feelings, physiological preparedness, goals and facial expressions. Attention, effort, latency persistence, choice, probability of response, facial expressions, bodily gestures. Cognitive engagement: interest and enjoyment, sophisticated learning strategies. Voice: poses questions and makes suggestions. Brain, hormonal, cardiovascular, ocular, electrodermal and skeletal activity: themes in the study of motivation. Motives vary over times and influence the ongoing stream of behaviour. Motivation includes both approach and avoidance tendencies. There is nothing so practical as a good theory: a good theory is manifested by observing reality.
