PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chopsticks, Belongingness, Sociobiology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

Document Summary

Even if raised in isolation, it will act the same way as their species instinct to acquire. Universal in species flight repulsion curiosity acquisition reproduction gregariousness self-abasement pugnacity. General term referring to the regulation of need-satisfying and goal-seeking behaviour. Drive theories reduce this drive/tension this drive. forms of self-regulation. An external goal that has the capacity to motivate behaviour. An internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that ex. if hungry, creates food drive because of need of food, thus reducing body"s tendency to maintain the conditions for its internal environment by various. Safety and security needs: long-term survival and stability. Unconscious thoughts, but still there and thus still affects you. But . people who have no stomachs still get hungry. Removal of lateral area in hypothalamus removes the animal"s interest. Lesioning of ventromedial area causes overeating. neurons sensitive to glucose in surrounding fluid.