PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Time Management, Anorexia Nervosa, Homeostasis
5 Apr 2016
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General term: inferred process, cannot be seen or measured directly (no part of the brain that directly relates to moivaion, staring, direcing, and maintaining physical and psychological aciviies. Extrinsic: pursue acivity for external rewards: disincions is now always clear. Insincts: preprogrammed tendencies essenial for survival: early theories (example: freud. Heavy emphasis on biological: hunger (eaing, sex (love and atracion) Others added: by 1930s, over 10k proposed. Drives and incenives: clark hull (1943, 1952) Saisfy need, reduce tensions: proposed incentives also moivate. Eaing when you aren"t really hungry, watching scary movies, etc. Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: move beyond insincts, needs at each level must be straiied before moving to a higher level can be achieved, issues: Very litle empirical support, numerous studies go against what. Used oten in moivaional speeches, and in basic high school class lessons. Zimbardo and montgomery (1957: denied rats food and water. Create hunger and thirst tension: place in a new environment.
